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Camille-Félix Bellanger, artist

1853–1923

untitled, 1916

Where object was made: France

Material/technique: pastel; gouache

Dimensions:
Object Height/Width (Height x Width): 77.2 x 59.2 cm
Object Height/Width (Height x Width): 30 3/8 x 23 5/16 in

Credit line: Gift of Professor Eric Gustav Carlson

Accession number: 2014.2152

Not on display

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Bellanger trained as an academic painter who taught drawing at a military academy and was honored during his lifetime for his paintings of historical and mythological subjects. He also made large reconnaissance landscape drawings, one of which is exhibited here. In this composition Bellanger, who did not fight, imagines the atrocities of war in a scene of sexual assault, torture, and arson.