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Study for The Battle of Waterloo
From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
About this work
Unfolding behind the foremost figures in The Battle of Waterloo are the horrors of the conflict. Pieneman worked up these scenes in great detail. Dead soldiers and horses are strewn over the battlefield. So many horses died at Waterloo that there was a serious shortage after the war. This scene appears on the left of the painting. The blank space is the captured flag held by an officer.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own descriptionSubjects
Credit lineStudie voor De Slag bij Waterloo. c. 1824. Jan Willem Pieneman. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
