Conrad the Corsair
| Conrad the Corsair | |
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| Artist | Horace Vernet |
| Year | 1824 |
| Type | Oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 64.5 cm × 54.2 cm (25.4 in × 21.3 in) |
| Location | Wallace Collection, London |
Conrad the Corsair is an 1824 oil painting by the French artist Horace Vernet.[1] [2] Inspired by Lord Byron's 1814 poem The Corsair it depicts Conrad, a pirate notorious across the Aegean Sea seated in a cave as two of his men approach.[3] Along with Walter Scott, Byron was a popular literary source for younger French painters, particularly those in the romantic movement. Vernet was the first French artist to depict scenes from Byron's works.[4]
Today it is in the collection of the Wallace Collection in London, having been acquired by the Marquess of Hertford in 1860.[5]
References
- ^ Ingamells p.12
- ^ Noon &Bann p.277
- ^ https://wallacelive.wallacecollection.org/eMP/eMuseumPlus?service=direct/1/ResultDetailView/result.tab.link&sp=10&sp=Scollection&sp=SelementList&sp=0&sp=2&sp=999&sp=SdetailView&sp=0&sp=Sdetail&sp=1&sp=F&sp=SdetailBlockKey&sp=0
- ^ Fahy p.326
- ^ https://wallacelive.wallacecollection.org/eMP/eMuseumPlus?service=direct/1/ResultDetailView/result.tab.link&sp=10&sp=Scollection&sp=SelementList&sp=0&sp=2&sp=999&sp=SdetailView&sp=0&sp=Sdetail&sp=0&sp=F&sp=SdetailBlockKey&sp=1
Bibliography
- Fahy, Everett (ed.) The Wrightsman Pictures. Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2005.
- Ingamells, John. The Wallace Collection: French Nineteenth Century. Trustees of the Wallace Collection, 1985.
- Harkett, Daniel & Hornstein, Katie (ed.) Horace Vernet and the Thresholds of Nineteenth-Century Visual Culture. Dartmouth College Press, 2017.
- Noon, Patrick & Bann, Stephen. Constable to Delacroix: British Art and the French Romantics. Tate, 2003.