| Artist | Gustave Brion, French, Rothau, Vosges 1824–Paris 1877 |
| Title, Date | Two Studies for “A Burial in the Vosges,” Figure Weeping and Figure with Cross, 1855 |
| Medium | Black chalk on pale pink wove paper |
| Dimensions | 7 1/4 × 11 1/2 in. (18.4 × 29.2 cm) (each) |
| Inscriptions + Marks | Figure Weeping, lower right in charcoal: A mon vieux / Frantz / GBrion / 1855; Figure with Cross, lower left in charcoal: A mon vieux Frantz / GBrion 1855 |
| Provenance | [Galerie Fischer-Kiener, Paris, until 1998; to Weisberg]; Yvonne and Gabriel Weisberg, Minneapolis |
| Exhibition History | "Expanding the Boundaries: Selected Drawings from the Yvonne and Gabriel P. Weisberg Collection," Mia (2008) and Snite Museum of Art, Notre Dame, Ind. (2010) |
| References | Lisa Dickinson Michaux with Gabriel P. Weisberg, "Expanding the Boundaries: Selected Drawings from the Yvonne and Gabriel P. Weisberg Collection" (exh. cat.), Minneapolis Institute of Arts (Minneapolis, 2008), p. 27, fig. 9 |
| Credit Line | Promised gift of Gabriel P. and Yvonne M.L. Weisberg, Minneapolisa,b |