Cavalry Skirmish
1800 · Brush and brown wash, heightened with gum arabic and lead white (discolored), with black chalk over graphite, on brown wove paper
24 × 31.5 cm (9 1/2 × 12 7/16 in.)
Art Institute of Chicago
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Guillaume Courtois
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Guillaume Courtois or italianized as Guglielmo Cortese, called Il Borgognone or Le Bourguignon, was a Free Burgundian-Italian painter, draughtsman and etcher. He was mainly active in Rome as a history and staffage painter and worked for high-level private patrons as well as large public commissions. He was a skilled portraitist, manifesting realistic sensitivity and a peculiar expressiveness. He left a large number of preparatory drawings which testify to his productivity.
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