| Maker(s): | Moreau, Jean-Michel le Jeune
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| Culture: | French (1741 - 1814)
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| Title: | Les Atheniens, près avoir Mis Le Jeu à la Ville De Thyrée, study for illustration from Histoire Grecque de Thucydide
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| Date Made: | 1808
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| Type: | Drawing
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| Materials: | bistre on paper
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| Place Made: | Greece
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| 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
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| 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
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| Accession Number: | SC 1971.15.4
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| 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)
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| Museum Collection: | Smith College Museum of Art
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