Recruits Going to Join the Regiment, ca. 1715–16, Etching with drypoint, 8 7/8 x 13 7/16 in. (22.6 x 34.2 cm), Prints, Antoine Watteau (French, Valenciennes 1684–1721 Nogent-sur-Marne), Recruits Going to Join the Regiment is part of a group of works depicting military subjects made by Watteau early in his career. As a group, they avoid bloodshed and violence, focusing instead on the mundane aspects of the soldiers’s itinerant existence
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Recruits Going, Join, Regiment, ca, 1715–16, Etching, drypoint, 8 7/8 x 13 7/16, 22.6 34.2 cm, Prints, Antoine Watteau, French, Valenciennes, 1684–1721, Nogent-sur-Marne, part, group, works depicting, military, subjects, Watteau early, career, avoid bloodshed, violence, focusing, mundane aspects, soldiers, itinerant, existence
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