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Study for “Brigands in the Abruzzi Ransoming Monks”
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Joseph-Nicholas Robert-Fleury

Study for “Brigands in the Abruzzi Ransoming Monks”

c. 1824

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Joseph-Nicholas Robert-Fleury

Study for “Brigands in the Abruzzi Ransoming Monks”

c. 1824

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
The Baltimore Museum of Art by anonymous gift, 1964; Private Collection.
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

Artist

Joseph-Nicholas Robert-Fleury

French, 1797-1890

French, 1797-1890
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