The Brigand Betrayed

The Brigand Betrayed
Artist	Horace Vernet
Year	1828
Type	Oil on canvas, genre painting
Dimensions	53 cm× 64 cm(21 in× 25 in)
Location	Wallace Collection, London

The Brigand Betrayed is an 1828 genre painting by the French artist Horace Vernet. ^[1] It depicts a bandit lured into a trap by a young woman, as a Papal dragoon waits behind a rock with a pistol. ^[2] It was produced the year Vernet took up his position as director of the French Academy in Rome, around the same time as his A Roman Herdsman Driving Cattle. He was likely influenced by paintings of bandits produced by Léopold Robert . Today the painting is in the Wallace Collection in London, having been acquired by the Marquess of Hertford in 1870. ^[3]

See also

• Italian Brigands Surprised by Papal Troops , an 1831 painting by Vernet

References

1. All the Banners Wave: Art and War in the Romantic Era, 1792-1851. The Department, 1982. p.116
2. Ingamells p.268
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

Bibliography

• 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.