Italian Brigands Surprised by Papal Troops

1831

131.5 cm 86.7 cm

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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...

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John T. Johnston Collection [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; John T. Johnston Collection Sale, New York, December 20, 1876 [Robert Somerville as agent], no.146 [from Henry Walters handwritten notebook, 1887, no.101]; William T. Walters, Baltimore, 1876, by purchase; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1894, by inheritance; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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