Study for The Battle of Waterloo
Details
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- Medium
- zwart krijt
- Dimensions
- height 273 mm x width 378 mm
- Holding institution
- Rijksmuseum
- Image provider
- rijksmuseum
- License
- Public Domain
- Credit
- Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Art Genome Taxonomy
11 tags
Subject Matter
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War and Military Both · 99%
The title identifies the subject as The Battle of Waterloo, while the image shows uniformed soldiers, mounted troops, weapons, and battlefield activity.
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Equestrian Visual · 98%
Numerous mounted figures and horses occupy the central, upper, and foreground areas of the composition.
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Human Figure Visual · 98%
The sheet contains many identifiable human figures, including soldiers in varied standing, mounted, fallen, and gesturing poses.
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Movement Visual · 97%
Raised weapons, rearing and fallen horses, twisting bodies, and repeated diagonal gestures create a pronounced sense of physical action.
Visual Qualities
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Dense Composition Visual · 97%
Figures, horses, weapons, and overlapping bodies occupy almost the entire inset image field, producing a compressed and crowded arrangement.
Medium and Techniques
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Drawing Both · 99%
The Rijksmuseum classifies the work as a drawing, and the image visibly consists of drawn lines, contours, and tonal hatching on a sheet.
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Hatching Visual · 95%
The drawing uses repeated short strokes and cross-directional hatching to build clothing, horses, ground, and shadow.
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Study Both · 98%
The catalog title explicitly identifies the work as a study, and the image shows a preparatory composition with passages that are more fully developed than others.
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Work on Paper Both · 96%
The object is cataloged as a drawing in black chalk, and the reproduction clearly shows a drawn image on a paper sheet with a broad margin.
Time Periods
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19th Century Art Metadata · 95%
The Rijksmuseum dates the work to circa 1824, placing it in the nineteenth century.
Materials
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Chalk Metadata · 99%
The catalog medium is recorded as “zwart krijt,” or black chalk; the visible dark drawing medium is consistent with that description.
Source & rights
Jan Willem Pieneman. Study for The Battle of Waterloo. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.