A Billet at Rangeval
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Object Details
- associated person
- War Department
- artist
- Smith, J. Andre
- Description
- A pencil, charcoal, and watercolor sketch on paper of a billet at Rangeval, France. The scene is of the top floor of a stable where the soldiers are quartered. Several soldiers are at the far end of the loft.
- An original label for the sketch read, "This shows the hay loft of a huge stable. The men arrange their bunks in the straw and along the wall. The great shell hole in the roof (the result of former fighting) admits light and air and especially rain. But those men whose beds are exposed to the elements have stretched their ponchos tent-fashion and are enjoying a sort of inside-out existence."
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- War Department. Historical Branch of the General Staff
- 1918-05
- associated date
- 1917-1918
- ID Number
- AF.25907
- catalog number
- 25907
- accession number
- 64592
- Object Name
- sketch
- Physical Description
- pencil (overall production method/technique)
- charcoal (overall production method/technique)
- watercolor (overall production method/technique)
- paper (overall material)
- Measurements
- sketch with frame: 14 1/4 in x 10 7/8 in; 36.195 cm x 27.6225 cm
- sketch without frame: 10 3/4 in x 8 11/16 in; 27.305 cm x 22.06625 cm
- See more items in
- Political and Military History: Armed Forces History, Military
- Official Art from the American Expeditionary Forces in World War I
- Military
- World War I Art
- Art
- Combat Art
- Art
- National Museum of American History
- related event
- World War I
- Record ID
- nmah_445447
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a2-7653-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
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