Benedict Masson
Souvenirs de la Commune: “Statue de la république …”
1870
Physical Qualities
Pen and ink and brush over graphite, Sheet: 330 × 210 mm. (13 × 8 1/4 in.)
Credit Line
Bequest of Léonce Rabillon
Object Number
1929.3.27 (2 of 28)
Standing nude female figure; cloak thrown over shoulder; laurel wreath on head; leaning on a club.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by bequest, 1929; Léonce Rabillon, Jr., Baltimore, by inheritance, 1886; Léonce Rabillon
Inscribed: RECTO: TC, ink, 'Statue de la république des communistes/pour remplacer la colonne Vendôme'; LR, ink, 'BM'; BRC, ink, '2'.
