An Old Woman Burning Papers

Provenance

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Artist: Nicolai Abraham Abildgaard (Danish, Copenhangen 1743–1809 Frederiksdal)
Date: mid-18th–early 19th century
Medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, over black chalk or graphite
Dimensions: sheet: 4 7/16 x 8 11/16 in. (11.2 x 22.1 cm)
Type: Drawing
Classification: Drawings
Department: Drawings and Prints
Credit line: Purchase, Charles and Jessie Price Gift, 2011
Accession no.: 2011.258

Venus with a Dove
Nicolai Abraham Abildgaard
ca. 1780 · Drawing
Museum collection · via the Metropolitan Museum of ArtAT-00022800
Jupiter, disguised as an eagle, with Ganymede, and a sketch of two peacocks
Nicolai Abraham Abildgaard
mid-18th–early 19th century · Drawing
Museum collection · via the Metropolitan Museum of ArtAT-00023026
Notes with a studies for the Column of Liberty (Frihedstøtten)
Nicolai Abraham Abildgaard
ca. 1791 · Drawing
Museum collection · via the Metropolitan Museum of ArtAT-00023199
Nemesis and Themis
Nicolai Abraham Abildgaard
mid-18th–early 19th century · Drawing
Museum collection · via the Metropolitan Museum of ArtAT-00023313

Data retrieved from the Metropolitan Museum of Art on October 9, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.