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In the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland · as of August 2026
FROM THE CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART’S CATALOG
John Brown meant for the dark background of this drawing to evoke the potential danger of Italian nights; the writer Johann Joachim Winckelmann had been murdered in Trieste in 1768, in the most conspicuous example of the period's widespread violence.
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Paul Gauguin (French, 1848–1903) — Mother and Child (recto);
Michel Dorigny (French, 1617–1665) — Studies of Angels (rect
James Barry — Study for "Divine Justice"
Eugène Delacroix (French, 1798–1863) — Armored Figure on Hor
Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi) — Figure studies (after 
Edgar Degas (French, 1834–1917) — Battle Scene with Armored 
Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish, 1577–1640) — The Feast of Herod 
Nicolas Poussin (French, 1594–1665) — Extreme Unction (recto
Honoré Daumier (French, 1808–1879) — Sheet of Studies with a
Pietro da Cortona (Italian, 1596–1669) — Lot and His Daughte
John Hamilton Mortimer — Classical Subject (Lucretia's Dead 
Thomas Couture (French, 1815–1879) — Duel after the Masked B
