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Pierre Paul Rabillon

Untitled

1824

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Pierre Paul Rabillon

Untitled

1824

Physical Qualities Black chalk with stumping and heightened with white chalk, Sheet: 348 x 159 mm. (sight); Mount: 418 x 228 mm.
Credit Line Bequest of Léonce Rabillon
Object Number 1929.3.21c
One of two drawings with arched top set in a classical landscape. A winged woman leans against a funerary monument in the shape of an obelisk bearing the names 'Platon' and 'Socrate'. She holds a small ring. A peacock stands at her feet. Fame flies overhead carrying a trumpet and wreath.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by bequest, 1929; Léonce Rabillon, Jr., Baltimore, by inheritance, 1886; Léonce Rabillon

Inscribed: None.

Artist

Pierre Paul Rabillon

1772–1772

French, c. 1773
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