Benedict Masson
Souvenirs de la Commune: “Voila la sublime…”
1870
Physical Qualities
Pen and ink and brush over graphite, Sheet: 311 × 202 mm. (12 1/4 × 7 15/16 in.)
Credit Line
Bequest of Léonce Rabillon
Object Number
1929.3.27 (4 of 28)
Man in contemporary clothes (waist coat, coat and riding boots) faces the spectator and leans on a painting propped on an easel.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by bequest, 1929; Léonce Rabillon, Jr., Baltimore, by inheritance, 1886; Léonce Rabillon (1814-1886), Baltimore.
Inscribed: RECTO: BC, ink, 'Voila la sublime de l'art quoi qu'en ait dit ce/pauvre Raphaël'; LL, ink, 'BM'; BRC, ink, '4'.
