Title: Scene 28: The Blessed Abbot having retired to the Château de Montaigu, soldiers of the league arrive to capture him as he leaves. A piece of wood falls from on high and scatters the soldiers and wounds the Holy Abbot, whom they leave for dead; he is miraculously cured and escapes
Object type: Drawing
Date: 1706
Portfolio: Scenes from the Life of the Reverend Jean de la Barrière
Artist:  Matthieu Elias 
Artist bio: French, Peene 1658–1741 Dunkerque
Artist nationality: French
Artist role: Artist
Medium: Red chalk, pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, heightened with white, over graphite
Dimensions: Sheet: 21 in. × 17 3/8 in. (53.4 × 44.2 cm)
Classification: Drawings
Credit line: Harry G. Sperling Fund, 1992
Department: Drawings and Prints
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Tags: term: Anger, term: Men, term: Monks