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Title
A Force Enters the Village to Reestablish Order
Description
Composition in black and white. Contour lines and straight. Man watching through a window a street where you see a trained battalion. The figure is the on the right of the composition, seeing only his head back toward the on the left 3/4. Has wavy hair combed back, on the left eye without iris setting and nose represented by a triangle, suggests be using a stiff collar clothes, standing. The window where the figure is has splashed curtains of tiny dots. In the background, to the left, forming a square battalion; the soldiers wear top hat and suggest having crossed bandoliers chest. Straight lines in perspective for background suggest the limit of the street and the beginning of the buildings, and to the right, we see even windows. On the floor in front of the battalion three small spots and on the right, short stake stuck in the ground.
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Function
Artwork Function
IllustrationArtworkFunctionType
Artwork Function Description
Illustration no. 24 for the book O alienista, by Machado de Assis
Support and Technique
Art Form
DrawingArtFormType
Art Medium
India ink penArtMediumType
Artwork Surface
paperArtworkSurfaceType
Collection
Collection
Dimensions
Height (cm)
16
Width (cm)
19
Signature and annotation
Annotation
Signed at bottom right edge "Portinari". Undated
Annotation Author
Inscription in bottom left corner "25”
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