This Last Picture
Date1904
Artist
Howard Pyle
(American illustrator, 1853–1911)
Illustration Citation"The Stairway of Honor," by Maud Stepney Rawson, in Harper's Monthly Magazine, January 1904
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions24 1/16 x 16 1/16 in. (61.1 x 40.8 cm)
frame: 29 x 21 in. (73.7 x 53.3 cm)
frame: 29 x 21 in. (73.7 x 53.3 cm)
Credit LineMuseum Purchase, 1912
Object number1912-26
On View
Not on viewClassificationsPAINTING
Label TextThe dark precincts of a castle are the backdrop for this story of a court artist for a French aristocrat. Despite his privileged status, the painter is kept imprisoned after being suspected of treason.
