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Study for “The Enrollment of the Volunteers of 1792”
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Study for “The Enrollment of the Volunteers of 1792”

Medium

Fabricated black chalk

Dimensions

Sheet: 16 3/4 in. × 12 in. (42.5 × 30.5 cm)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Gift of Roberta J.M. Olson and Alexander B.V. Johnson, 2018

Classification

Drawings

Department

Drawings and Prints

Rights

Public Domain

About Thomas Couture

1815–1879France

Often remembered for "The Romans of the Decadence," the sensation of the 1847 Salon that is now often cited as a classic example of bombastic academic painting. His informal works are more lively and he encouraged his students to directly study from landscape. Comment on works: mythology, history