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The Rape of the Sabines

Date

1780s

Creator

Gabriel François Doyen

Location

Raclin Murphy Museum of Art

The Snite drawing may be an early compositional study for a painting now in the Musée de Cambrai. It appears fully conceived and rendered, but there are significant differences between this work—with its compact and vertical arrangement—and the finished painting, which adopts a horizontal orientation and spreads the action more liberally across the picture plane. from Snay, The Epic and the Intimate: French Drawings from the John D. Reilly Collection (Notre Dame, 2011)

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The Snite drawing may be an early compositional study for a painting now in the Musée de Cambrai. It appears fully conceived and rendered, but there are significant differences between this work—with its compact and vertical arrangement—and the finished painting, which adopts a horizontal orientation and spreads the action more liberally across the picture plane. from Snay, The Epic and the Intimate: French Drawings from the John D. Reilly Collection (Notre Dame, 2011)
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Gabriel François Doyen (French, 1726 - 1806)
1780s
Drawings
Black chalk and brown and gray wash, heightened with white chalk on wove paper
2014.061.142
Rape of the Sabines
Not on view, please request access
21 1/4 x 17 3/8 in. (53.98 x 44.13 cm)
Bequest of John D. Reilly, ND '63, '64

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