This sculpture represents the first and original terracotta version of the model L’Anxiété. It exemplifies Charlier’s quintessential subject matter: the intimate bond between a mother and her son. A marble version was part of the artist’s bequest and is now held in the collection of the Musée Charlier in Brussels (inv. III-6-2000). A second marble version, whose current whereabouts are unknown, was sold by the artist to the influential collector Mr. Damiens, a member of Van Cutsem’s inner circle. Through Van Cutsem’s patronage, Charlier has produced, exhibited and sold very few of his works, with most of his known oeuvre anchored at the Musée Charlier in Brussels and the Musée des Beaux-Arts of Tournai, Belgium.

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Probably: Exposition Guillaume Charlier & Théodore Verstraete, Brussels, 33 Avenue de Cortenberg, 1897.

Probably: Ausstellung Vlämischer Kunstler, Krefeld, Kaiser Wilhelm Museum, 1898, Bildhauerei : ‘nr. 4. Unruhe.’