Jules Machard
Sampans, 1839 – Bellevue, 1900
Battle scene
260 x 190 mm – 10 1/4 x 7 1/2 in.
Pen and black ink on paper.
Stamped signature J. Machard (L. 5030) lower right.
Bibliography: Virginie Frelin and Elisabeth Coulon, Jules Machard, le culte de la ligne, exhibition catalogue, 4 April to 15 June 2003, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Dole, repr. fig. 12, p. 52.
This drawing belongs to a set of 85 drawings from the studio of Jules Machard presented by Drawings-online. Read our focus on the artist.
Executed in Italy when Jules Machard was a student at the Villa Medici, this drawing illustrating The Sack of an Italian City is a project for a painting executed at the occasion of his third consignment to the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris in 1870. This project was never carried out because the Institute considered that the execution of such a work would take too long. Jules Machard decided to send his painting The Death of Medusa (Besançon, Musée des Beaux-Arts, inv. D.874.1.1).
