The Dead Wallenstein Being Carried Away by Soldiers
Medium
Graphite, brown wash (?)
Dimensions
Sheet: 9 1/16 × 10 15/16 in. (23 × 27.8 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, Daniel Ergmann Gift, 2014
Accession Number
2014.110
Tags
About this artwork
[Research in progress for The Dead Wallenstein Being Carried Away by Soldiers by Karl Theodor von Piloty, 1871]
Art Historical Context
In the dimly lit corridors of history, Karl Theodor von Piloty captures a pivotal moment from the Thirty Years' War his 1871 drawing *The Dead Wallenstein Beingried Away by Soldiers*. von Wallenstein, the ambitious Bohemian general whose military genius and political intrigue made him a central figure in the conflict, met a dramatic end in 1634 assassins—acting on Emperor Ferdinand II's orders—stabbed him to death in Eger (now Cheb, Czech Republic). Piloty's graphite and brown wash sketch vividly depicts soldiers bearing the lifeless commander, swords at their sides, evoking the raw brutality ...