Massacre des Mameluks Rebelles dans le Château de Caire, 1818

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Medium

lithograph on wove paper

Dimensions

image: 41.8 x 54.2 cm (16 7/16 x 21 5/16 in.)

sheet: 47 x 61.2 cm (18 1/2 x 24 1/8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Frank Anderson Trapp

Catalogue Raisonné

Beraldi, no. 195

Accession Number

1999.111.27

Artists / Makers

Horace Vernet (artist) French, 1789 - 1863

Image Use

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Inscription

lower left on step in image: H. Vernet; lower left below image: H. Vernet; lower center below image: Massacre des Mameluks rébelles dans le Chateau de Caire; lower right below image: Lith G: Engelmann; upper right above image: 55; by later hand, lower left in graphite: B178; by later hand, lower right in graphite: 2/ P. Pr Vernet 1818 4/72/30

Provenance

Frank Anderson Trapp [1922-2005], Pittsburgh; gift to NGA, 1999.

Associated Names

Trapp, Frank Anderson

Exhibition History

1988: Delacroix and the Romantic Image: Oriental Themes, Wild Beasts, and the Hunt, Mead Art Museum, Amherst, MA, 1988, no cat. no., illustrated p. 53.

Bibliography

1885: Beraldi, Henri. Les graveurs du XIXe siecle, guide de l'amateur d'estampes modernes. 12 vols. Paris, 1885-1892: Henri. Les graveurs du XIXe siecle, guide de l'amateur d'estampes modernes. 12 vols. Paris: Librairie L. Conquet, 1885-1892.