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Maker(s):Moreau, Jean-Michel le Jeune
Culture:French (1741 - 1814)
Title:Platée Pillée Par Des Lacédemoniens, 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 1/4 in.; 24.765 x 18.415 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: Quoi! Pletée pillée par des Lacédemoniens! quelle indignité! Thucydide Li. III ch 57
Accession Number:  SC 1971.15.5
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:
men in Roman robes seated on curved stone benches, one man behind a low stone barrier as two other men stand gesturing, soldiers with spears at the left surrounded by wide border with urns and fantastical figures

Tags:
men; architecture; military

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