Portrait of a "Mamelouk"
Horace Vernet
1810
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
29 1/2 x 24 1/4 in. (75 x 61.5 cm)
Classification
Paintings
Department
European Paintings
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Kenneth Jay Lane, 2014
Accession Number
2014.435.3
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
MenPortraitsOrientalistHills
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 ...