Surrender of the Troops
Unknown Italian, Italian
possibly 17th century
Red ink on paper
Sheet: 6 11/16 × 8 7/8 in. (17 × 22.5 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Susan E. Hardy, Nancy R. Wilsker, Sarah A. Stahl, and John S. Stahl in memory of their parents Barbara J. and David G. Stahl, Class of 1947
2014.73.117
Geography
Place Made: Europe
Period
1600-1800
Object Name
Drawing
Research Area
Drawing
Not on view
Inscriptions
Inscribed, on reverse, lower left side, in graphite [partially erased]: D 27 / 5-566
Label
Before a mass of standing soldiers, a group of men and women prostrate themselves and weep in horror. One kneeling man tears at his hair in distress, while the women behind him raise their hands to the sky in prayer. Others throw themselves on the ground. Before such an emotional display, the soldiers at the right stand impassively, accepting the surrendered weapons. With figures dressed in classical armor and robes, the scene seems to represent a battle narrative from ancient Greece or Rome. The impassioned reactions of the conquered men and women, however, are timeless. The artist has captured real feelings of grief and fear in war. This quickly sketched drawing is likely a study for a larger work, perhaps a painting of a poetic or historic subject.
From the 2023 exhibition Recording War: Images of Violence 1500 – 1900, curated by Elizabeth Rice Mattison, Andrew W. Mellon Associate Curator of Academic Programming
Course History
Anthropology 3.01, Introduction to Anthropology, Charis Ford Morrison Boke 1, Summer 2023
Studio Art 27.01/28.01/74.01, Printmaking I/II/III, Josh Dannin, Summer 2023
Facilitated Experience: Special Tour - From Goya to Photojournalism, Summer 2023
Exhibition History
Recording War: Images of Violence, 1500-1900, Ivan Albright Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, May 20-August 20, 2023.
Provenance
Collected by Barbara Jaffe Stahl (1930-2004) and David Gerald Stahl (1926-2013), Manchester, New Hampshire; bequeathed to their children Susan E. Hardy, Nancy R. Wilsker, Sarah A. Stahl and John S. Stahl, 2013; given to present collection, 2014.
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