Chasseurs è pied se barricadant derrière un mur en prévision d'une attaque

Original unsigned ink drawing (by Berne-Bellecour); soldiers piling furniture etc. at corner of farm or garden wall, one guarding door in wall; a preliminary sketch for the artist's oil painting (with one or two changes or additions to the composition) entitled 'Attaque Imprévue', commissioned from the artist by John Carter Brown in 1889 (sold at Sotheby's, New York, June 1986). Original unsigned ink drawing (by Berne-Bellecour); soldiers piling furniture etc. at corner of farm or garden wall, one guarding door in wall; a preliminary sketch for the artist's oil painting (with one or two changes or additions to the composition) entitled 'Attaque Imprévue', commissioned from the artist by John Carter Brown in 1889 (sold at Sotheby's, New York, June 1986). Large oblong, matted; margins intact; clean, yellowed.