Benedict Masson
Souvenirs de la Commune: ‘Pauvre peinture!’
1870
Physical Qualities
Pen and ink and brush over graphite, Sheet: 310 × 202 mm. (12 3/16 × 7 15/16 in.)
Credit Line
Bequest of Léonce Rabillon
Object Number
1929.3.27 (11 of 28)
Two men toss a woman (allegory of paintings) off of a cliff; her palette and brush go flying.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by bequest, 1929; Léonce Rabillon, Jr., Baltimore, by inheritance, 1886; Léonce Rabillon
Inscribed: RECTO: BC, ink, 'Pauvre peinture! Tombera-t-elle pile ou face?'; LR, ink, 'BM'; BRC, ink, '11.'
