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A black and white print shows a rural road filled with overturned carts, dead men, and dead horses.

A black and white print portrays a road in the country, lined with tall trees, which bisects a large field. In the middle of the scene, the road curves. There are overturned, broken carts throughout the scene, with barrels, notebooks, and other cargo spilling out of them. There are also the bodies of dead men and horses in the distance. In the center, is a large, bright white cart that lurches to the right because its wheel has broken off. Around it are the corpses of five, male soldiers and five dead horses. They lie in different positions: on their backs, on their sides and on their stomachs. Ammunition and rifles lie on the ground between them.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
2021.309
People
Auguste Lançon (Saint-Claude 1836 - 1887 Paris)
Title
Road to Mouzon, August 31, 1870
Other Titles
Original Language Title: Route de Mouzon, 31 août 1870
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1870
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/370219

Location

Location
Level 2, Room 2570, University Collections Gallery, Currently Closed
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Physical Descriptions

Medium
Etching on white laid paper
Technique
Etching
Dimensions
plate: 23.7 × 33.6 cm (9 5/16 × 13 1/4 in.)
sheet: 30 × 40.9 cm (11 13/16 × 16 1/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: lower right, in plate: Route de Mouzon 31 Aout 1870
  • inscription: lower left, in plate: A Lançon
  • collector's mark: lower left, black ink: YB [in monogram, encircled] [Lugt 421, mark of Alfred Beurdeley II]
  • inscription: verso, upper left, graphite: 87/ 3 [?]9
  • watermark: Top center, beginning of each line cut off: ...IS / ... MON / ...2?

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Alfred Beurdeley (1847-1919), Paris (Lugt 421). [James A. Bergquist, Boston], sold; to Arthur K. and Mariot F. Solomon, Cambridge, 1988, as "scene from the Franco-Prussian War," bequest; to Harvard Art Museums, 2021

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

State
proof

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Arthur K. and Mariot F. Solomon Collection
Accession Year
2021
Object Number
2021.309
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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