Hunting in the Pontine Marshes
Horace Vernet
1833
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
overall: 100 × 137 cm (39 3/8 × 53 15/16 in.) framed: 136.53 × 173.36 × 16.51 cm (53 3/4 × 68 1/4 × 6 1/2 in.)
Classification
Painting
Department
CF
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Chester Dale Fund
Accession Number
1989.3.1
Rights
Public Domain
About the Artist
Horace Vernet · 1789–1863
**Horace Vernet** (full name Émile Jean-Horace Vernet) was a leading French painter of the nineteenth century, renowned for his dynamic battle scenes, portraits, and Orientalist subjects. Born on 30 June 1789 in Paris at the Louvre during the French Revolution, he came from a distinguished artistic dynasty. He was the son of the equestrian and military painter Carle Vernet and the grandson of the ...