Pierre Paul Rabillon
Untitled
1800-1810
Scroll
Pierre Paul Rabillon
Untitled
1800-1810
Physical Qualities
Black chalk heightened with white; black chalk on verso, Sheet: 197 × 252 mm. (7 3/4 × 9 15/16 in.)
Credit Line
Bequest of Léonce Rabillon
Object Number
1929.3.21d
RECTO: Classical antique setting with Tuscan columns. In the center a seated man comforts a woman who covers her face with her hand and drags by the wrist a nude male child who looks over his shoulder in horror at an old man with a raised club beating a snake. Another snake slithers out the door behind him. To the far left, a seated woman covers her face. In the center, a tall column bears a sculpture of the she-wolf of Rome (?). VERSO: pencil sketch of the Borghese Warrior with left arm missing.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by bequest, 1929; Léonce Rabillon, Jr., Baltimore, by inheritance, 1886; Léonce Rabillon
Inscribed: RECTO: TLC, (brown ink), '5eme'
Markings: Watermark: C. A. & C.
