Conrad the Corsair

Conrad the Corsair
Artist	Horace Vernet
Year	1824
Type	Oil on canvas
Dimensions	64.5 cm× 54.2 cm(25.4 in× 21.3 in)
Location	Wallace Collection, London

Conrad the Corsair is an 1824 oil painting by the French artist Horace Vernet. ^{[1] [2]} Inspired by Lord Byron's 1814 poem The Corsair it depicts Conrad, a pirate notorious across the Aegean Sea seated in a cave as two of his men approach. ^[3] Along with Walter Scott, Byron was a popular literary source for younger French painters, particularly those in the romantic movement. Vernet was the first French artist to depict scenes from Byron's works. ^[4]

Today it is in the collection of the Wallace Collection in London, having been acquired by the Marquess of Hertford in 1860. ^[5]

References

1. Ingamells p.12
2. Noon &Bann p.277
3. 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
4. Fahy p.326
5. 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=0&sp=F&sp=SdetailBlockKey&sp=1

Bibliography

• Fahy, Everett (ed.) The Wrightsman Pictures. Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2005.
• 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.
• Noon, Patrick & Bann, Stephen. Constable to Delacroix: British Art and the French Romantics. Tate, 2003.