Horace Vernet: Italian Brigands Surprised by Papal Troops
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Artist |
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Title |
Italian Brigands Surprised by Papal Troops |
Object type |
painting ![Edit this at Wikidata](http://up.wiki.x.io/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/10px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png) |
Genre |
battle painting ![Edit this at Wikidata](http://up.wiki.x.io/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/10px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png) |
Description |
English: In this scene, papal troops intercept brigands who are looting a coach and carrying off its passengers. During the 19th century, brigands, or "banditi," posed a real threat to travelers in rural areas of the Italian states, but they were also idealized as daring outlaws.
Horace Vernet, the director of the Académie de France in Rome (1828-34) and professor at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris (1835-63), was regarded as a leader of the "juste-milieu," or the middle course between the opposing Romantic and Neoclassical factions in French painting. He chose dramatic, often contemporary, subjects but rendered them with the smooth brushwork and attention to detail associated with the Academic tradition.
Italiano: truppe pontificie sorprendono briganti. |
Date |
1831 date QS:P571,+1831-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 |
Medium |
oil on canvas medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259 |
Dimensions |
height: 86.7 cm (34.1 in); width: 131.5 cm (51.7 in) dimensions QS:P2048,86.7U174728 dimensions QS:P2049,131.5U174728 ; with frame: height: 127 cm (50 in); width: 172.8 cm (68 in); depth: 19 cm (7.5 in)dimensions QS:P2048,127U174728 dimensions QS:P2049,172.88U174728 dimensions QS:P5524,19.05U174728 |
Collection |
institution QS:P195,Q210081 |
Accession number |
37.54 |
Place of creation |
Paris, France |
Object history |
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Exhibition history |
- Salon, Louvre Palace, 1831
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- The Romantic Circle. Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford. 1952. War à la Mode: Military Painting from the Forbes Collection. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. 1977. All the Banners Wave: Art and War in the Romantic Era. Brown University, Bell Gallery, List Art Center, Providence. 1982. A Magnificent Age: Masterpieces from the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City; Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte; The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore. 2002-2004. French Artists in Rome: Ingres to Degas, 1803-1873 (Maestà di Roma. D'Ingres à Degas). Dahesh Museum of Art, New York; Académie de France à Rome, Roma. 2003. 19th Century Masterpieces from the Walters Art Museum. Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara; Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art, Austin. 2010-2011.
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Credit line |
Acquired by William T. Walters, 1876 |
Inscriptions |
Signature, place made and date bottom right:
H. Vernet / Paris 1830
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References |
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Source |
Walters Art Museum: Home page Info about artwork |
Permission (Reusing this file) |
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