Benedict Masson
Souvenirs de la Commune: ‘Mes deux fils!’
1870
Physical Qualities
Pen and ink and brush over graphite, Sheet: 198 × 316 mm. (7 13/16 × 12 7/16 in.)
Credit Line
Bequest of Léonce Rabillon
Object Number
1929.3.27 (18 of 28)
A woman stands between two men with her arms raised as if to intervene. One man wears a soldier's uniform, the other is in street clothes, but both are armed and aiming at each other.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by bequest, 1929; Léonce Rabillon, Jr., Baltimore, by inheritance, 1886; Léonce Rabillon
Inscribed: RECTO: BC, ink, 'Mes deux fils!'; LRQ, ink, 'BM'; BRC, ink, '18.'
