La Reconciliation
Horace Vernet
1776 to 1800
Medium
lithograph
Dimensions
image: 18.5 x 25.3 cm (7 5/16 x 9 15/16 in.) sheet: 26.4 x 34.6 cm (10 3/8 x 13 5/8 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Frank Anderson Trapp
Accession Number
2004.128.47
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 ...