Gallia Omnia Divisa Est in Partes Tres
Date1946
Artist
John Sloan
(American painter, etcher, and illustrator, 1871–1951)
MediumGraphite on paper
Dimensionssheet: 10 7/8 × 8 5/16 in. (27.6 × 21.1 cm)
Credit LineGift of Helen Farr Sloan, 1986
Object number1986-133.575
On View
Not on viewClassificationsDRAWING
Label TextThis humorous view of surgery may reference one of Sloan's several operations on his gall bladder, or perhaps an upcoming surgery for his mother-in-law, as the inscription implies. The text refers to the first line of Julius Caesar's commentary on the Gallic War and can be translated as "All of Gaul is divided into three parts."
