The Members of the Academy of Beaux-Arts Assembled to Jury the Rome Prize

Paul Delaroche

Cleveland Museum of Art

Brown and black sketch on beige paper of a large group of men sitting at a long rectangular table facing a standing woman in a black dress, window on the back wall flanked by columns with a sculpture on a mantle. The brown sketch includes the long table positioned diagonally across the image, with a man sitting at the end on the left and a woman standing on the right. The people sitting are men with mainly balding heads or hats. The woman standing on the right facing them wears a long dress. People stand or sit along the back wall. The wall has windows on the right and left and a sculpture on a mantle in the center. The left and right edges of the sketch are on beige paper with darker beige borders. The sketch is titled in cursive writing at the bottom.