| Massacre of the Mamelukes | |
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| Artist | Horace Vernet |
| Year | 1819 |
| Type | Oil on canvas, history painting |
| Dimensions | 386 cm× 514 cm(152 in× 202 in) |
| Location | Musée de Picardie, Amiens |
Massacre of the Mamelukes (French: Le massacre des mamelouk) is an 1819 history painting by the French artist Horace Vernet. [1] [2]
It depicts the massacre of the Mamelukes at the Citadel of Cairo in 1811, portraying a concluding moment in the first Egyptian Khedive Muhammad Ali's rise to power. It was an early Orientalist painting by Vernet, then known primarily for his scenes of the Napoleonic era. He would later produce a number of other works of North Africa, primarily featuring the French conquest of Algeria from 1830. Having order the massacre, Muhammad Ali sits calmly smoking his narguile as he watches the violence unfold. [3] It may have been an indirect reference to the White Terror that followed the Second Bourbon Restoration in France following the Battle of Waterloo. [4]
It was exhibited at the Salon of 1819 in Paris. [5] Today it is in the collection of the Musée de Picardie in Amiens. Vernet produced several other versions of the scene. A tapestry was produced based on the painting and featured at the Great Exhibition at the Crystal Palace in 1851. [6]
Émile Jean-Horace Vernet more commonly known as simply Horace Vernet, was a French painter of battles, portraits, and Orientalist subjects.
Joseph Vernet Tied to a Mast During a Storm is an 1822 history painting by the French artist Horace Vernet. It depicts a famous, possibly apocryphal, incident from the life of the artist's grandfather the marine painter Joseph Vernet who lashed himself to the mast of a ship in order to witness the effects of a storm. He had received a commission from Louis XV to paint a series of pictures depicting the ports of France and after departing Italy had run into a violent storm. As a rising artist Horace Vernet promoted his connection with his celebrated grandfather but quickly developed a reputation as a prolific and versatile painter in his own right.
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