Study for "The Death of Major Peirson": Group of Dying French Officers

A black chalk study on pale blue paper shows several sketched male figures in loose, unfinished outlines. At center, two men embrace, one bent forward and leaning on the other, while a third figure stands at right with head lowered and a faint figure appears at lower left.

Look closer: A faint, partly erased figure is sketched in the lower left corner.

Artist

John Singleton Copley

Date

1782–83

Medium

Black chalk on light blue laid paper

Source

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Size

3811 × 2377 px

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Purchase, Louisa Eldridge McBurney Gift, 1960