The Slave Market (Vernet)
| The Slave Market | |
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| Artist | Horace Vernet |
| Year | 1836 |
| Type | Oil on canvas, genre painting |
| Dimensions | 65 cm × 54 cm (26 in × 21 in) |
| Location | Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin |
The Slave Market (French: Le Marché d'esclaves) is an 1836 genre painting by the French artist Horace Vernet.[1] It depicts a slave market in the Middle East. Vernet produced a number of orientalist works following his visits to North Africa in the wake of the French Conquest of Algeria.[2] Today the painting is in the collection of the Alte Nationalgalerie in Berlin.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ Ruutz-Rees p.28-29
- ^ Behdad & Gartlan p.13
- ^ https://artblart.com/tag/horace-vernet-slave-market/
Bibliography
[edit]- Behdad, Ali & Gartlan, Luke. Photography's Orientalism: New Essays on Colonial Representation. Getty Publications, 2013.
- Harkett, Daniel & Hornstein, Katie (ed.) Horace Vernet and the Thresholds of Nineteenth-Century Visual Culture. Dartmouth College Press, 2017.
- Ruutz-Rees, Janet Emily. Horace Vernet. Scribner and Welford, 1880.
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