Judah and Tamar

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Judah and Tamar
Horace Vernet-Judah n Tamar 1840.jpg
Artist Horace Vernet
Year1840
Type Oil on canvas
Dimensions129 cm× 97.5 cm(51 in× 38.4 in)
Location Wallace Collection, London

Judah and Tamar is an 1840 oil painting by the French artist Horace Vernet. It portrays a biblical scene featuring the widowed Tamar who seduces her father-in-law Judah while disguised as a prostitute. [1] [2]

Vernet exhibited the work at the Salon of 1843 at the Louvre in Paris. Today it is in the Wallace Collection in London, having been acquired by Marquess of Hertford in 1865. [3]

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