Rape of the Sabines
1700s
Maker Unknown
Drawings
Rape of the Sabines, 1700s. France, 18th century. Pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash, with traces of black chalk?; sheet: 28.1 x 51.6 cm (11 1/16 x 20 5/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Norweb Collection 1954.678
- Maker/Artist
- Maker Unknown
- Classification
- Drawing
- Formatted Medium
- pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash, with traces of black chalk?
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 28.1 x 51.6 cm (11 1/16 x 20 5/16 in.)
- Inscribed
- Inscription: VERSO, upper right, in brown ink: 155 [partially masked] ; center, in graphite: Colln [illegible] Wm. Baillie ; center, in graphite: 427/532 ; lower left, in brown ink: [Gandolfi?] [upside down] ; lower left, in brown ink: M/disegni 50 [upside down] ; lower center, in graphite: Poussin ; lower center, in graphite: 444 [circled] ; lower right, in graphite: 163 ; ON SEPERATELY APPLIED PIECE OF PAPER, verso, center right, printed in black in: 111 Poussin, Nicolas. 1594-1665 RAPES OF THE SABINES. 11 in. x 20 1/4 in. / Pen and wash drawing, 21
- Departments
- Drawings
- Accession Number
- 1954.678
- Credit Line
- The Norweb Collection
- Exhibitions
- Drawings: Discoveries in the Collection, CMA, Drawings: Discoveries in the Collection (Aug. 7-Oct. 28, 1990).
- Rights Statement
- CC0
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