Pierre Paul Rabillon
Untitled
1829
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Pierre Paul Rabillon
Untitled
1829
Physical Qualities
Black chalk with stumping and heightened with white chalk, Sheet: 350 x 163 mm. (sight); Mount: 418 x 230 mm.
Credit Line
Bequest of Leonce Rabillon
Object Number
1929.3.21a
One of a pair of drwgs., arched at the top and set in a classical interior, showing a woman on her death bed. She is surrounded by three women and two men in various positions of grief. In the upper register on a layer of clouds a winged figure escorts the woman who holds a palm branch.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by bequest, 1929; Léonce Rabillon, Jr., Baltimore, by inheritance, 1886; Léonce Rabillon
Inscribed: ON MOUNT, RECTO: LRC, (black ink), 'par P. P. Rabillon / vers 1830'.
