Joseph-Nicholas Robert-Fleury
Bandits from Abruzzi Attacking Monks
1823
Scroll
Joseph-Nicholas Robert-Fleury
Bandits from Abruzzi Attacking Monks
1823
Physical Qualities
Pen and brush and brown ink heightened with white opaque watercolor over graphite, Sheet: 155 x 216 mm. (6 1/8 x 8 1/2 in.)
Credit Line
Anonymous Gift
Object Number
1964.163
Monk in center, seated, being forced to sign a paper; another monk sitting in the lower right with hands tied behind his back; 'bandits' standing around with guns.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 1964; Ferdinand Roten, Baltimore.
Jay McKean Fisher, William R. Johnston and Cheryl K. Snay, 'The Essence of Line: French Drawings from Ingres to Degas,' organized by The Walters Art Museum and The Baltimore Museum of Art, circulated to The Walters Art Museum June 19, 2005 - September 11, 2005, The Birmingham Museum of Art February 9, 2006 - May 4, 2006, Tacoma Art Museum June 9, 2006 - September 7, 2006.
'Accessions Report', The Baltimore Museum of Art News 28:1 (1965), p. 25.
Fisher, Jay McKean, et al. The Essence of Line: French drawings from Ingres to Degas. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2005, p. 326-29, ill.
Inscribed: RECTO: BLC, ink, 'R fy'.
Markings: LR: illegible emblem
