This Last Picture

This Last Picture
This Last Picture

This Last Picture

Date1904
Artist (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)
Credit LineMuseum Purchase, 1912
Object number1912-26
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsPAINTING
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.