The historic gallery of portraits and paintings: and biographical review : containing a brief account of the lives of the moost celebrated men, in every age and country : and graphic imitations of the fines specimens of the arts, ancient and modern : with remarks, critical and explanatory (Band 7) (London: Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe, 1811)

A WOUNDED ROMAN SOLDIER.
DROUAIS.
This composition is from the pencil of an artist who
promises by his talents to reflect lustre on the career
he has chosen: the subject is at once simple and in-
teresting.
Having received a wound which is likely to deprive
him of life, this soldier appears to look indignantly
upon his rival, and to triumph over his own affliction.
He has taken from him his cloak and sword. In the
back-ground is a shield of a circular form.
This figure is one of those studies which the young
French artists, who are sent to Rome at the expence
of the government, are accustomed annually to pro-
duce, in order to attest their progress in the art.
Drouais, by this display of his powers, has shewn
himself worthy of the reputation which he had pre-
viously acquired.
In the figure of the “ Wounded Soldier” a bold and
correct outline, a chaste and vigorous colouring, and
a flowing pencil, are particularly to be admired. This
was the first study sent by M. Drouais to Paris from
Rome.
The figure is of the natural size.