Sketch for War, painting in the Museum of Picardy at Amiens

ca. 1861

Dating: Approximate date range
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Black chalk touched with white and red chalk
Dimensions: 16 7/8 x 12 1/2 in. (42.9 x 31.8 cm.) (irregular)
Collection no.: 18.143
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

Pierre Puvis de Chavannes. Sketch for War, painting in the Museum of Picardy at Amiens. Pierre Puvis de Chavannes; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Rogers Fund, 1918. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.

Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

About this artwork

Sketch for War, painting in the Museum of Picardy at Amiens — Pierre Puvis de Chavannes. ca. 1861.

Medium: Black chalk touched with white and red chalk. Dimensions: 16 7/8 x 12 1/2 in. (42.9 x 31.8 cm.) (irregular).

Collection record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.

Credit line: Rogers Fund, 1918.

This is a museum catalogue record, not a current-display assertion.

Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.

Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.

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