Scene 28: The Blessed Abbot having retired to the Château de Montaigu, soldiers of the league arrive to capture him as he leaves. A piece of wood falls from on high and scatters the soldiers and wounds the Holy Abbot, whom they leave for dead; he is miraculously cured and escapes

Matthieu Elias|Reverend Jean de la Barrière

1706 · Red chalk, pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, heightened with white, over graphite · Drawings and Prints

Scene 28: The Blessed Abbot having retired to the Château de Montaigu, soldiers of the league arrive to capture him as he leaves. A piece of wood falls from on high and scatters the soldiers and wounds the Holy Abbot, whom they leave for dead; he is miraculously cured and escapes — Matthieu Elias|Reverend Jean de la Barrière
Artist
Matthieu Elias|Reverend Jean de la Barrière
Date
1706
Medium
Red chalk, pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, heightened with white, over graphite
Department
Drawings and Prints
Credit line
Harry G. Sperling Fund, 1992

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