Allegory of War
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink, with red and black fabricated chalks and opaque and transparent watercolors, with touches of lead white and white chalks, on cream wove paper
- Dimensions
- 45.6 × 37.3 cm (18 × 14 11/16 in.)
- Genre
- Pen and ink drawings
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Tags
drawings (visual works)paintfabricated chalkinksmudgingpen and ink drawingsgouacheConté crayon (TM)prints and drawingwatercolorcrayonsdrawing techniquescoating (material)paper (fiber product)water-base paint
About
Primarily an illustrator, Andrieux had a penchant for war imagery, a marketable subject in the late 19th century. Spurred by Napoleon III’s attempt to evict Austria from the Piedmont and convert Italy into a confederation of states headed by the pope, he created these drawings in which the personification of War lies across a heap of dead warriors as Death hovers above.
