DrawingsFrench?18th century

Cavalry Fight

18th century

Artists

Francesco SimoniniArtist

Classification

Drawings

Medium

Brown ink and brown wash over black chalk on white antique laid paper

Culture

French?

Century

18th century

Division

European and American Art

Department

Department of Drawings

Dimensions

actual: 20.5 x 31 cm (8 1/16 x 12 3/16 in.)

Provenance

Robert Gilmor, Jr., Baltimore, MD; to his estate, 1848; to probably Gardner L. Chandler, Salem, MA; to John Witt Randall, Boston, MA, bequest; to his sister Belinda L. Randall, 1892, gift; to Harvard University, 1892.

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