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Dec 11, 2012

Rape of the Sabines

1700s

France, 18th century

Pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash, with traces of black chalk?

Support: Two sheets (joined) of beige(1) laid paper

Sheet: 28.1 x 51.6 cm (11 1/16 x 20 5/16 in.)

The Norweb Collection 1954.678

Location

not on view

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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

Provenance

William Baillie, London (according to inscription on verso). Unidentified collector's mark, lower right, in red ink: [M?]

Exhibition history

CMA, Drawings: Discoveries in the Collection (Aug. 7-Oct. 28, 1990).

Drawings: Discoveries in the Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 7-October 28, 1990).

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France, 18th century

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