Nuns
mid-1800s
- Medium
- black and white chalk on gray laid paper
- Dimensions
- 18.8 × 21.2 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-209164
In this drawing, a group of young nuns gather to pray. The unknown French artist used white chalk to delicately highlight the central figure with clasped hands. The work suggests the new style and subject matter that proliferated throughout France during the mid-19th century when an emerging middle-class audience became interested in collecting art and viewing it in exhibitions such as the Paris Salon.
Provenance
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of Muriel Butkin, 2019.60
Registry history
- mid-1800s — Recorded in the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art — drawings
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