DrawingsFrench18th century

Infantry Leader Receiving Battle Instructions from a Cavalry Officer

18th century

Artists

Charles ParrocelArtist

Classification

Drawings

Medium

Brown ink, black chalk, and gray wash on cream antique laid paper, framing lines in black ink, laid down on a decorative mount

Culture

French

Century

18th century

Division

European and American Art

Department

Department of Drawings

Dimensions

55.4 × 41.3 cm (21 13/16 × 16 1/4 in.) mount: 59.7 × 44.4 cm (23 1/2 × 17 1/2 in.)

Provenance

Lannoy Collection. Baron Doctor Cornelius Ver Heyden de Lancey (1889-1984), London, Rome, and Jersey, by descent; to Ver Heyden de Lancey family. [Colnaghi, London, by 1986]. Jeffrey E. Horvitz, Boston, 1986, gift; to Harvard Art Museums, 2018

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