The Metropolitan Museum of Art · Drawings and Prints

A Woman Distributing Bread from a Basket: Study for "Feed the Hungry," in the Chapel of the Seven Corporal Works of Mercy (Les Oeuvres de Miséricorde), Church of Saint-Eustache, Paris

Victor-François-Eloi Biennourry

Date

1850–53

Medium

Fabricated black and white chalk, squared with fabricated black chalk, on blue laid paper

Dimensions

15-3/4 x 9-7/8 in. (40.0 x 25.1 cm)

Object type

Drawing

Classification

Drawings

Object number

1998.406.2

Credit line

Gift of Alexander B.V. Johnson and Roberta J.M. Olson, 1998

The Met object ID 336782. The source CSV marks this record public domain, the official API identifies it as image-bearing, and the image was reverified as public domain before this page rendered.