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Maker(s):Moreau, Jean-Michel le Jeune
Culture:French (1741 - 1814)
Title:Les Atheniens, près avoir Mis Le Jeu à la Ville De Thyrée, study for illustration from Histoire Grecque de Thucydide
Date Made:1808
Type:Drawing
Materials:bistre on paper
Place Made:Greece
Measurements:sheet: 19 3/4 x 14 3/4 in.; 50.165 x 37.465 cm; image (with border): 9 3/4 x 7 3/8 in.; 24.765 x 18.7325 cm; image: 6 3/8 x 3 7/8 in.; 16.1925 x 9.8425 cm
Narrative Inscription:  signed and dated in ink below image at center: J.M.moreau Le Je. 1808, inscribed: les atheniens après avoir mis le feu à la Ville de Thyrée emmènent les Eginètes et Tantale, qui les commandait pour les Lacédemoniens. Thucydide L. iv. Ch. 57
Accession Number:  SC 1971.15.4
Credit Line:Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Lifton (Loretta Jane Silver, class of 1952) and Dr. and Mrs. Ernst Greif (Carol Lynn Silver, class of 1955)
Museum Collection:  Smith College Museum of Art
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Description:
central image of men in armor carrying an injured man in a landscape with large stone aquaduct in the background, framed with scroll and grotesque motifs

Tags:
men; military; wars; architecture; landscapes

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