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Source Description
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.
Scholar Source Context
Document identity
localId
22922
label
Italian Brigands Surprised by Papal Troops
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obj
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drawing
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2
Source metadata
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22922
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drawing
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normalized
title
Italian Brigands Surprised by Papal Troops
description
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.
provenance
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.
date
1831
citationUrl
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CC0
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en
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Painting & Drawing
oil paintings (visual works)
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2
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2
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import
dimensions
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cm
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86.7
height
131.5
dimensionsRaw
H: 34 1/8 x W: 51 3/4 in. (86.7 x 131.5 cm); Framed H: 50 x W: 68 1/16 x D: 7 1/2 in. (127 x 172.88 x 19.05 cm)
Source extras
inscriptions
[Signature] Lower right: H. Vernet Paris; [Date] Lower right: 1830
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oil on canvas
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5448
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EAN
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2113
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1
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photo
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2
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photo
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