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Maker(s):Delacroix, Eugène
Culture:French (1798 - 1863)
Title:Figure Studies
Date Made:ca. 1840
Type:Drawing
Materials:Pen and brown (iron gall) ink on cream (darkened to light brown) wove paper
Place Made:France
Measurements:sheet: 10 3/8 in x 8 1/16 in; 26.3525 cm x 20.47875 cm
Narrative Inscription:  unsigned, undated, red stamp in lower left: E.D.
Accession Number:  SC 2010.29
Credit Line:Gift of Catherine Blanton Freedberg, class of 1964, in memory of her husband, Professor Sydney J. Freedberg
Museum Collection:  Smith College Museum of Art
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Description:
overlapping sketches of seven figures

Label Text:
Label text for ARH 240 French and Italian Drawings Renaissance through Romanticism, written by Maddy Barker, class of 2015:

The intertwining of human forms testifies to the extraordinary imagination of this Romantic artist. In its intense frenzy of nude and clothed figures, it recalls the iconic Renaissance battle pictures by Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci, the Battle of Cascina and the Battle of Anghiari. The use of iron gall ink to depict this mêlée of human limbs accentuates the torment of the moment, as the acid of the ink eats through the fragile wove paper.

Tags:
men; nudes

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