This sculpture depicts a sleeping baby, modeled with moving tenderness and realism. Its fetal posture, the folds of the skin, the serene expression on the face—all evoke the fragility and mystery of life’s beginning. The surface, with its muted tones and gentle textures, resembles weathered stone, as if time itself had caressed the body. In its seeming helplessness, the image of the newborn Jesus softly echoes: God made flesh, vulnerable like any creature, entrusted to the world in the stillness of a manger.

Sculpture modeled in fine grog refractory clay and reproduced in resin. Painted with shellac, chalk paint, acrylics, ferric paint, and varnish.

14 x 27 x 8 cm | 5.5 x 10.5 x 3 in