Robert Capa
Neapolitan Mothers Weeping Over Their Missing Sons, Naples, Italy

Neapolitan Mothers Weeping Over Their Missing Sons, Naples, Italy

© Robert Capa © International Center of Photography/Magnum Photos

Neapolitan Mothers Weeping Over Their Missing Sons, Naples, Italy
Neapolitan Mothers Weeping Over Their Missing Sons, Naples, Italy
ArtistAmerican, born Hungary, 1913–1954
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Neapolitan Mothers Weeping Over Their Missing Sons, Naples, Italy
Date1943
PlaceNaples, Italy
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 13 1/2 × 10 1/4 in. (34.3 × 26.1 cm)
Sheet: 13 1/2 × 10 1/4 in. (34.3 × 26 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Caroline Wiess Law Accessions Endowment Fund, The Manfred Heiting Collection
Object number2002.755
Non exposé

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Department
Photography
Object Type
ProvenanceEx-collection Ernst Haas; Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York.

Bought by Manfred Heiting from Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York, on 10/6/1989.
Exhibition History"From the Printed Page: Photographs from the Manfred Heiting Collection," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, January 23-June 5, 2006.

"WAR/PHOTOGRAPHY: Images of Armed Conflict and Its Aftermath," The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 11 November, 2012 - 3 February, 2013.

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