Dirk Langendijk
Dutch, 1748-1805
A Skirmish Between the Cavalry Officers and Footsoldiers with Bayonets
INV-1988
Dirk Langendijk
Dutch, 1748-18051781
A Skirmish Between the Cavalry Officers and Footsoldiers with Bayonets
Dirk Langendijk Dutch, 1748-1805 →prints and drawingdrawings (visual works)
Date
1781
Medium
Pen and brown ink and gray and black washes, heightened with white gouache, on cream laid paper
Dimensions
48.5 × 38.5 cm (19 1/8 × 15 3/16 in.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection
Fascinated throughout his career by military subjects, Rotterdam-based Dirk Langendijk had a special passion for depictions of cavalry in action. In this highly finished example, Langendijk presented the violent confrontation of mounted cavalry with foot soldiers. The drama of the foreground scene is further emphasized by the heavy smoke clouds in the middle and background, which are explained ultimately by the bright white explosion behind the church tower, in the upper right corner of the drawing.
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