File:Vernet Battle of Somosierra.jpg

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Summary

Horace Vernet: Battle of Somosierra.

Artist



Alternative names	Émil Jean Horace Vernet Horace Emil Jean Vernet
Description	French history painter, orientalist, portrait painter, drawer and lithographer
Date of birth/death	30 June 1789	17 January 1863
Location of birth/death	Paris	Paris
Work period	1810 –1863
Work location	Rome, Paris, Saint Petersburg, Netherlands (ca. 1841-1846), Algiers (1847-1848)
Authority file	: Q161145 VIAF: 22149840 ISNI: 0000000121235923 ULAN: 500024243 LCCN: n82070688 MusicBrainz: 83d62f6f-3f43-42f0-a0c3-29d6a03e3bc6 WorldCat

Title

Battle of Somosierra.

Object type

painting

Genre

battle painting

Date

1816

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

height: 81 cm (31.8 in); width: 99 cm (38.9 in)

Collection

National Museum in Warsaw

	Native name	Muzeum Narodowe w Warszawie
	Location	Warsaw
	Coordinates	52° 13′ 54″ N, 21° 01′ 29″ E
	Established	20 May 1862
	Website	www.mnw.art.pl
	Authority file	: Q153306 VIAF: 155350218 ISNI: 0000000122540874 LCCN: n50052919 NLA: 36307256 GND: 1008386-8 WorldCat

Current location

not on view

Accession number

M.Ob.472

Object history

circa 1816: commissioned by Wincenty Krasiński

1817: transferred to Krasiński Estate, Warsaw

before 1939: stolen by Nazi Germany from Krasiński Estate Museum, Warsaw (Inventory number 1399)
1946: restituted to National Museum in Warsaw (MNW) by Art Repositiory, Kraków

Inscriptions

Signature, location and date bottom right:

Horace Vernet / Paris - 1816

References

Agnieszka Morawińska (1999). Romantyzm: malarstwo w czasach Fryderyka Chopina. Dom Polski Sp. ISBN 83-91181-11-1, p. 318

Source/Photographer

wolnelektury.pl

Licensing

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current	17:56, 15 August 2016	1,906 × 1,544 (2.47 MB)	Artinpl	Improved
	17:54, 15 August 2016	1,906 × 1,544 (2.48 MB)	Artinpl	Dim
	21:33, 14 March 2013	1,000 × 742 (429 KB)	BurgererSF	Previous version was too bluish
	14:36, 17 July 2008	1,000 × 742 (146 KB)	Mathiasrex	{{Information \|Description={{en\|1=Battle of Somosierra by Horace Vernet}} \|Source=http://sarmata.livejournal.com/127083.html#cutid1 \|Author=Horace Vernet \|Date=XIX century \|Permission= \|other_versions= }} {{ImageUpload\|full}}