The Brigand Betrayed
| The Brigand Betrayed | |
|---|---|
| Artist | Horace Vernet |
| Year | 1828 |
| Type | Oil on canvas, genre painting |
| Dimensions | 53 cm × 64 cm (21 in × 25 in) |
| Location | Wallace Collection, London |
The Brigand Betrayed is an 1828 genre painting by the French artist Horace Vernet.[1] It depicts a bandit lured into a trap by a young woman, as a Papal dragoon waits behind a rock with a pistol.[2] It was produced the year Vernet took up his position as director of the French Academy in Rome, around the same time as his A Roman Herdsman Driving Cattle. He was likely influenced by paintings of bandits produced by Léopold Robert . Today the painting is in the Wallace Collection in London, having been acquired by the Marquess of Hertford in 1870.[3]
See also
- Italian Brigands Surprised by Papal Troops, an 1831 painting by Vernet
References
- ^ All the Banners Wave: Art and War in the Romantic Era, 1792-1851. The Department, 1982. p.116
- ^ Ingamells p.268
- ^ https://wallacelive.wallacecollection.org/eMP/eMuseumPlus?service=direct/1/ResultDetailView/result.tab.link&sp=10&sp=Scollection&sp=SelementList&sp=0&sp=2&sp=999&sp=SdetailView&sp=0&sp=Sdetail&sp=1&sp=F&sp=SdetailBlockKey&sp=0
Bibliography
- Ingamells, John. The Wallace Collection: French Nineteenth Century. Trustees of the Wallace Collection, 1985.
- Harkett, Daniel & Hornstein, Katie (ed.) Horace Vernet and the Thresholds of Nineteenth-Century Visual Culture. Dartmouth College Press, 2017.