Les Forçats (The Convicts)
Les Forçats (The Convicts)

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Les Forçats (The Convicts),

1820

Horace Vernet, 1789–1863; born and died Paris, France
Printed by François Delpech, French, 1778–1825
x1954-142
Although little known today, Vernet was one of the most celebrated history painters to emerge in France following the Revolution. Born to an illustrious family of eighteenth-century artists, Vernet rejected the classical traditions championed by the French Academy and painted contemporary scenes of military history and culture in a dramatic, naturalist style. Like Delacroix and Géricault, as a printmaker he embraced the recently invented medium of lithography, a relatively high-speed process first favored by commercial printers and publishers.

Information

Title
Les Forçats (The Convicts)
Dates

1820

Maker
Horace Vernet
Printed by François Delpech
Medium
Lithograph
Dimensions
image: 23.2 x 30.3 cm. (9 1/8 x 11 15/16 in.) sheet: 32.9 x 45.2 cm (12 15/16 x 17 13/16 in.)
Credit Line
Bequest of Henry K. Dick, Class of 1909
Object Number
x1954-142
Place Made

Europe, France, Paris

Inscription
Signed in stone, lower left corner: H Vernet Inscribed below image, lower left: I. Lith de Delpech. Titled below image, lower center: LES FORÇATS
Marks/Labels/Seals
Collector Albert Maroni's stamp in red ink below image, lower left: (Lugt 150b) Collector’s stamp in lower margin, left: 10 DK 37 / W. Inscribed in graphite in unknown hands in lower margin, left to center: B-116- / Moroni Collection / Printed about 1820
Reference Numbers
Beraldi 116
Culture
French
Type
lithographs, prints
Materials
lithographic ink
Techniques
lithography
Subject
prisoners, men, figures (representations), quays

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