The Terrible News

Pierre Jean Edmond Castan

Brooklyn Museum photograph

Caption

Pierre Jean Edmond Castan (French, 1817–1892). The Terrible News, 1864. Oil on panel, 15 3/4 × 12 3/4 in. (40 × 32.4 cm) frame: 24 1/2 × 21 1/2 × 3 in. (62.2 × 54.6 × 7.6 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of the executors of the Estate of Colonel Michael Friedsam, 32.795. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)

Gallery

Not on view

Collection

European Art

Title

The Terrible News

Date

1864

Geography

Place made: France

Medium

Oil on panel

Classification

Painting

Dimensions

15 3/4 × 12 3/4 in. (40 × 32.4 cm) frame: 24 1/2 × 21 1/2 × 3 in. (62.2 × 54.6 × 7.6 cm)

Signatures

Signed and dated lower left: "1864./Edmond Castan"

Credit Line

Gift of the executors of the Estate of Colonel Michael Friedsam

Accession Number

32.795

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