Rape of the Sabines

1700s

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Title: Rape of the Sabines
Date Created: 1700s
Physical Dimensions: Sheet: 28.1 x 51.6 cm (11 1/16 x 20 5/16 in.)
Provenance: William Baillie, London (according to inscription on verso). Unidentified collector's mark, lower right, in red ink: [M?]
Type: Drawing
Rights: CC0
External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/1954.678
Medium: pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash, with traces of black chalk?
Inscriptions: 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
Department: Drawings
Culture: France, 18th century
Credit Line: The Norweb Collection
Collection: DR - French
Accession Number: 1954.678

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