Pieta
Pieta
Pieta
Pieta
Pieta
Pieta

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Pieta

Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, French, 1827–1875
x1941-100

Information

Title
Pieta
Maker
Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux
Medium
Tempera and touches of watercolor over pen and brown ink, brown wash on offwhite wove paper; Verso: reclining nude, monster, and upper part of a head in graphite
Dimensions
17.0 x 13.0 cm. (6 11/16 x 5 1/8 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Frank Jewett Mather Jr.
Object Number
x1941-100
Inscription
Inscribed in graphite on verso, upper center: Par Carpeaux / P.S.12.4.34 / 2x
Culture
French
Type
drawings
Subject
deaths, angels, Christ, Mary

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