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, 1850–53, Fabricated black and white chalk, squared with fabricated black chalk, on blue laid paper, 15-3/4 x 9-7/8 in. (40.0 x 25.1 cm), Drawings, Victor-François-Eloi Biennourry (French, Bar-sur-Aube 1823–1893 Paris), With a sympathetic gaze, this figure extends a hand offering a loaf of bread, an embodiment of feeding the hungry, one of the seven works of mercy that Biennourry was commissioned to paint with fellow Prix de Rome winner Eugène Damery (1823–1853) for a chapel in the Church of Saint-Eustache in Paris
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Woman Distributing Bread, Basket, Study, Feed, Hungry, Chapel, Seven Corporal Works, Mercy, Les Oeuvres de Miséricorde, Church, Saint-Eustache, Paris, 1850–53, Fabricated black, white chalk, squared, fabricated black, blue laid paper, 15-3/4 x 9-7/8, 40.0 25.1 cm, Drawings, Victor-François-Eloi Biennourry, French, Bar-sur-Aube, 1823–1893, sympathetic gaze, figure extends, hand offering, loaf, bread, embodiment, feeding, hungry, seven works, mercy, Biennourry, commissioned, paint, fellow Prix de, Rome, winner, Eugène, Damery, 1823–1853, chapel
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