id:			132123
accession number:	1954.678
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1954.678
updated:		2024-03-26 01:58:33.867000

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

title:				Rape of the Sabines
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creation date:			1700s
creation date earliest:		1700
creation date latest:		1799
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creditline:			The Norweb Collection
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culture:	France, 18th century
technique:	pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash, with traces of black chalk?
department:	Drawings
collection:	DR - French
type:		Drawing
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CREATORS

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measurements: Sheet: 28.1 x 51.6 cm (11 1/16 x 20 5/16 in.)
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	description:	two sheets (joined) of beige(1) laid paper
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inscriptions:

	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
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Drawings: Discoveries in the Collection
	opening date:   1990-08-07T04:00:00
	<i>Drawings: Discoveries in the Collection</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 7-October 28, 1990).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* {'description': 'CMA, Drawings: Discoveries in the Collection (Aug. 7-Oct. 28, 1990).', 'opening_date': '1990-08-07T00:00:00'}

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PROVENANCE

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