During this period in Basel, he painted The Artist's Family, demonstrating Elsbeth with the couple's two eldest young children, Philipp and Katherina, evoking photographs of the Virgin and Child with St John the Baptist. 93 Following an extended period of social, political, and financial unrest, General Augusto Pinochet assumed electricity in a violent coup d'état on September 11, 1973 amongst the useless was Allende.