Portrait of a Military Man
Medium
Lithograph in black on ivory wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 10.2 × 11.1 cm (4 1/16 × 4 3/8 in.); Sheet: 21 × 15.7 cm (8 5/16 × 6 3/16 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
39771
Art Historical Context
In the Prints and Drawings department of the Art Institute of Chicago sits *Portrait of a Military Man*, a delicate 1816 lithograph by Sauveur (Jean Sauveur) Legros. Measuring just 10.2 × 11.1 cm, this intimate black-ink image on ivory wove paper captures the stern gaze and uniformed poise of its subject, evoking the disciplined world of early 19th-century soldiery. Created mere months after the Napoleonic Wars' conclusion at Waterloo, the portrait reflects a era when military heroes—and everyday officers—were romanticized in art, preserving their likenesses for posterity amid Europe's shiftin...