Recruits Going to Join the Regiment, Antoine Watteau, ca. 1715–16
Recruits Going to Join the Regiment, ca. 1715–16, Etching with drypoint, 8 7/8 x 13 7/16 in. ( x 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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