Charon and the Souls of the Dead
Cleveland Museum of Art

Charon and the Souls of the Dead

Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux (French, 1827–1875) · c. 1858

Pen and brown ink and graphite on antique laid paper (recto), black chalk on antique laid paper (verso)
CC0 — Public Domain
Cleveland Museum of Art

This drawing was probably Carpeaux’s first version of the subject. In later sketches, he greatly reduced the number of figures in the composition.

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