Allegory of War, 1860 pen and ink drawing

A nude female figure, crowned with a laurel wreath, raises one arm amid a dark, smoky battlefield, seated on fallen armor. A cloaked, hooded figure looms behind her while winged figures swirl in the clouds above, and bloodied bodies lie at lower right.

Artist

Clement Auguste Andrieux

Date

1860

Medium

Pen and brown ink, with red and black fabricated chalks and opaque and transparent watercolors, with touches of lead white and white chalks,

Source

Art Institute of Chicago

Size

1686 × 2051 px

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Art Institute of Chicago, Through prior gift of Ellen N. LaMotte