File:Jean-Paul Laurens - A Funeral - 2008.368 - Cleveland Museum of Art.tif

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A Funeral   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Artist
Jean-Paul Laurens
Title
A Funeral
Object type drawing
object_type QS:P31,Q93184
Description
The macabre subject matter of A Funeral is typical of Jean-Paul Laurens, whose interest in depicting cadavers and coffins earned him the nickname "the painter of the dead." Laurens was also attracted to subjects from church history, and, here, the crosier leaning against the door behind the coffin indicates the deceased was a bishop. Highly finished drawings like this one are rare in Laurens's production. His technique of covering the surface with a variety of media and scratching away for highlights is quite similar to the one used by another artist in the exhibition-Alexandre Bida, in his Café at Constantinople [cat. no. 34]. Laurens utilized the technique effectively in this gloomy scene, where the glowing candle flame casts long shadows and feebly illuminates the columns receding into darkness on the left.
Date c. mid-1870s-early 1880s
Medium Charcoal and brush and black and brown ink, with stumping and scratching away
Dimensions Sheet: 40.1 x 29 cm (15 13/16 x 11 7/16 in.)
institution QS:P195,Q657415
Current location
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Accession number
2008.368
Place of creation France, 19th century
Credit line Bequest of Muriel Butkin
Source/Photographer https://clevelandart.org/art/2008.368

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