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Cavalry Battle

Jacques Courtois

n.d.

Medium

Pen and bistre, washed with bistre and ink

Tags

BattlesSoldiersHorses

Dimensions

12 5/8 x 18 3/8 in. (32.1 x 46.7 cm)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Gift of Cornelius Vanderbilt, 1880

Classification

Drawings

Department

Drawings and Prints

Rights

Public Domain

About Jacques Courtois

1621–1676 • County of Burgundy

A specialist in battle paintings, he also painted religious and other scenes. As a teenager, Courtois left France for Italy with his young brother, Guillaume. He drew military campaigns, then studied in Bologna, Florence, and Siena, arriving in Rome by 1638. He worked primarily in Italy. He joined the Jesuit order in 1657.

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