# French Troops before Salins and the Surrounding Hills

- By: Adam Frans van der Meulen (French, born Flanders, 1632 - 1690)
- Date: 1668/1670
- Medium: red chalk over black chalk surrounding red chalk counterproof, on two joined sheets of laid paper, incised overall for transfer and laid down
- Classification: Drawing
- Dimensions: sheet: 48.8 x 132.8 cm (19 3/16 x 52 5/16 in.)
- Credit line: The Ahmanson Foundation
- Museum: [National Gallery of Art](https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.141298.html)
- Rights: [Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://api.nga.gov/iiif/7c1c1b01-9122-48a8-9a15-d0f80333d11e/full/!1920,1080/0/default.jpg
- Who can see it: Teens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)