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1825
Medium
Lithograph in black on cream chine, laid down on ivory wove paper (chine collé)
Dimensions
Image: 18.7 × 26.1 cm (7 3/8 × 10 5/16 in.); Primary support: 19.9 × 27.9 cm (7 7/8 × 11 in.); Secondary support: 28.9 × 41.7 cm (11 7/16 × 16 7/16 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
127413
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 ...