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The painting depicts a battle scene in an open field setting. The landscape shows numerous soldiers gathered in ranks amidst smoke, indicating gunfire and battle activity. A broken tree stands in the center, with soldiers positioned around it and some tending to others on the ground. The background includes rolling hills, a partly cloudy sky, distant buildings, and trees. The style is reminiscent of 19th-century war illustration, capturing the intensity and atmosphere of historical battles.
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The painting depicts a battle scene in an open field setting. The landscape shows numerous soldiers gathered in ranks amidst smoke, indicating gunfire and battle activity. A broken tree stands in the center, with soldiers positioned around it and some tending to others on the ground. The background includes rolling hills, a partly cloudy sky, distant buildings, and trees. The style is reminiscent of 19th-century war illustration, capturing the intensity and atmosphere of historical battles.

National Gallery of Art · Portfolio

Battle at Churubusco

Adolphe-Jean-Baptiste Bayot, after Carl Nebel

Date
1851
Medium
hand-colored lithograph on wove paper
Dimensions
image: 27.46 × 42.86 cm (10 13/16 × 16 7/8 in.) sheet: 43.5 × 58.26 cm (17 1/8 × 22 15/16 in.)
Classification
Portfolio · Print
Accession number
2015.19.3616.7
Credit line
Corcoran Collection
Time span
1851 to 1875
Department
CG-W
Original NGA record Wikidata

Portfolio and series

Portfolio
The War Between the United States and Mexico

Subjects and terms

  • American
  • Flag
  • lithograph
  • Tree
  • War
  • military
  • Soldier
  • Mountains
  • Guns
  • Architecture
  • Drum
  • Mexico
Provenance

William Wilson Corcoran, Washington, DC; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Inscription

lower left on stone: C. Nebel fecit.; lower center on stone: Battle at Churubusco; lower right on stone: Bayot lith.

Marks

stamped lower left in black ink: Entered / According to Act / of Congress

NGA object ID 216786. Collection metadata is reproduced under CC0. This work is included because its NGA published-image record is marked open access; visitors should recheck the source record before substantial reuse.