The Siege of Constantine (painting)
| The Siege of Constantine | |
|---|---|
| Artist | Horace Vernet |
| Year | 1838 |
| Type | Oil on canvas, history painting |
| Dimensions | 512 cm × 518 cm (202 in × 204 in) |
| Location | Palace of Versailles, Versailles |
The Siege of Constantine (French: La prise de Constantine) is an 1838 history painting by the French artist Horace Vernet depicting a scene from the French conquest of Algeria. It portrays French troops storming the city of Constantine on 13 October 1838. [1] It was one of a trilogy of paintings Vernet produced depicting different stages of the siege. It forms the third part of a Triptych.[2] The work was displayed at the Salon of 1839 at the Louvre in Paris. The painting was commissioned by Louis Philippe I for the Musée de l'Histoire de France at the Palace of Versailles.[3]
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Bibliography
- Harkett, Daniel & Hornstein, Katie (ed.) Horace Vernet and the Thresholds of Nineteenth-Century Visual Culture. Dartmouth College Press, 2017.
- Hornstein, Katie. Picturing War in France, 1792–1856. Yale University Press, 2018.
- Sessions, Jennifer E. By Sword and Plow: France and the Conquest of Algeria. Cornell University Press, 2015.