DrawingsFrench17th century

Figure Kneeling Before an Altar

17th century

Artists

Raymond LafageArtist

Classification

Drawings

Medium

Brown and black ink on cream antique laid paper, framing line in black ink, laid down on a decorated mount

Culture

French

Century

17th century

Division

European and American Art

Department

Department of Drawings

Dimensions

24 x 21.2 cm (9 7/16 x 8 3/8 in.)

Provenance

Smithson. John Witt Randall, Boston, MA, bequest; to his sister Belinda L. Randall, 1892, gift; to Harvard University, 1892

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