The Shades of French Soldiers from the Past Exhort the Army to Victory on the Rhine

Q: When was "The Shades of French Soldiers from the Past Exhort the Army to Victory on the Rhine" created?

This artwork was created c. 1870.

Q: Is "The Shades of French Soldiers from the Past Exhort the Army to Victory on the Rhine" in the public domain?

Yes, The Shades of French Soldiers from the Past Exhort the Army to Victory on the Rhine is in the public domain and available for free download under CC0 license.

Gustave Doré

c. 1870

Medium

brush and brown ink, black watercolor, and white gouache over graphite on wove paper, laid down on heavy paper

Dimensions

overall: 65.5 x 91 cm (25 13/16 x 35 13/16 in.)

Classification

Drawing

Department

CG-E

Museum

National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Credit

Helen Porter and James T. Dyke Fund

Accession Number

2006.62.1

About the Artist

Gustave Doré · 1832–1883

Gustave Doré (1832–1883) was a French artist who became the most celebrated and prolific illustrator of the nineteenth century, creating iconic visual interpretations of world literature that remain definitive to this day. Born in Strasbourg, he showed extraordinary precocious talent, publishing his first lithographs at age fifteen and securing a contract with a Paris publisher while still a teena...

The Shades of French Soldiers from the Past Exhort the Army to Victory on the Rhine

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