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Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux

Charon and the Souls of the Dead

c. 1858
Pen and brown ink and graphite on antique laid paper (recto), black chalk on antique laid paper (verso)

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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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