Judah and Tamar

religious

In France Orientalism was closely bound up with the Romantic movement, the most important representatives of which were Delacroix and Géricault. Beside these outstanding figures the list of painters of oriental themes extends unbroken to the end of the century and beyond. They have become known as the Orientalists throughout Europe.

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About the Artist

Horace Vernet

1789 – 1863

Émile-Jean-Horace Vernet, known as Horace Vernet, was son of Antoine-Charles-Horace (known as ' Carle ') Vernet and grandson of Claude-Joseph Vernet, one of the leading French landscape painters of his period. He was one of the most prolific of French military painters, specializing in scenes of the Napoleonic era. He remained an ardent Bonapartist, and his chief work was the huge Gallery of Battles at Versailles, painted for Louis Philippe. A portrait of Napoleon and four battlepieces by him are in the National Gallery, London. He also did animal and Oriental subjects. From 1828 to 1835 he was Director of the French Academy in Rome. His sister married the costume-history painter Paul Delaroche.

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