Jean Paul Laurens' "A Funeral" employs charcoal, brush, and black and brown ink with stumping and scratching techniques to create a somber composition depicting a funeral ceremony. The artist's use of mixed media and gestural marks generates atmospheric depth and emotional intensity, with the stumping technique softening forms while scratching away reveals highlights and creates compositional tension. This work exemplifies Laurens' skill in handling drawing media to convey dramatic narrative content and psychological weight characteristic of academic art practice in the late nineteenth century.