Allegory of War

Clement-Auguste Andrieux French, 1829-1880 →

pen and ink drawingsdrawings (visual works)

Date

1860

Medium

Pen and brown ink, with red and black fabricated chalks and opaque and transparent watercolors, with touches of lead white and white chalks, on cream wove paper

Dimensions

45.6 × 37.3 cm (18 × 14 11/16 in.)

Museum

Art Institute of Chicago

Location

Chicago, IL

Credit

Through prior gift of Ellen N. LaMotte

Primarily an illustrator, Andrieux had a penchant for war imagery, a marketable subject in the late 19th century. Spurred by Napoleon III’s attempt to evict Austria from the Piedmont and convert Italy into a confederation of states headed by the pope, he created these drawings in which the personification of War lies across a heap of dead warriors as Death hovers above.

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