Artilleryman Lighting a Mine
1776 to 1800
Medium
lithograph
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1964.8.1703
Art Historical Context
### Artilleryman Lighting a Mine Created by French artist Horace Vernet between 1776 and 1800, *Artilleryman Lighting a Mine* is a lithograph from the National of Art's Rosenwald. Vernet, renowned for his depictions of military life and equestrian scenes, captures a tense moment of wartime ingenuity. As part of the Print department (CG-E), this work exemplifies early lithography—a revolutionary printing technique invented around 1796, which allowed artists to draw directly on stone for nuanced tonal effects and mass reproduction, bridging painting and printmaking. The scene portrays an artil...