Billets in Cell of the Old Monastery of Rangeval

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Description:

Charcoal sketch on blue-gray paper. The work depicts a group of soldiers billeted in a cell of the old Monastery of Rangeval near Boucq, France. A drawing on the wall above the sleeping pallets shows France (the woman) killing "the German monster." Soldiers are lounging on cots beneath the drawing. A line of drying laundry hangs on the left side of the sketch.

Date Made: ca 1918Associated Date: 1917-1918

Associated Person: War DepartmentArtist: Peixotto, Ernest Clifford

Location: Currently not on view

Depicted: France

Related Event: World War I

Subject:

See more items in: Political and Military History: Armed Forces History, Military, Official Art from the American Expeditionary Forces in World War I, Military, World War I Art, Art, Combat Art, Art

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Credit Line: War Department. Historical Branch of the General Staff

Data Source: National Museum of American History

Id Number: AF.25809Catalog Number: 25809Accession Number: 64592

Object Name: sketch

Physical Description: charcoal (overall production method/technique)Measurements: overall: 20 in x 17 in; 50.8 cm x 43.18 cm

Metadata Usage: CC0

Guid: http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a2-773e-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa

Record Id: nmah_445105

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