Edith Recovering Harold's Body after the Battle of Hastings
| Edith Recovering Harold's Body after the Battle of Hastings | |
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| Artist | Horace Vernet |
| Year | 1827 |
| Type | Oil on canvas, history painting |
| Dimensions | 370 cm × 430 cm (150 in × 170 in) |
| Location | Musée Thomas-Henry, Cherbourg |
Edith Recovering Harold's Body after the Battle of Hastings is an 1827 history painting by the French artist Horace Vernet.[1] It depicts the aftermath of the Battle of Hastings in 1066 during the Norman Conquest of England. The English monarch Harold Godwinson was defeated and killed in the fighting. It shows a famous scene as Edith the Fair, accompanied by some monks, scoured the battlefield for the fallen Harold. He is discovered in a broken palisade, a sheet hiding the face which has been disfigured by an arrow.[2]
British historical themes were very fashionable in France during the Restoration era, particularly those of Walter Scott. Vernet produced several paintings including this one.[3]
It was one of several historical paintings Vernet exhibited at the Paris Salon of 1827.[4] In 1828 it was exhibited in London at William Armfield Hobday's gallery in Pall Mall.[5] Today it is in the collection of Musée Thomas-Henry in Cherbourg.[6]
References
[edit]- ^ Ruutz-Rees p.12-13
- ^ Harkett & Hornstein p.162-64
- ^ Fahy p.326-27
- ^ Harkett & Hornstein p.162
- ^ The London Magazine. Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1828. p.229-30
- ^ https://www.culture.gouv.fr/regions/drac-normandie/Actualites/Restauration-d-un-tableau-d-Horace-Vernet-Edith-retrouvant-le-corps-d-Harold-apres-la-bataille-d-Hastings
Bibliography
[edit]- Fahy, Everett (ed.) The Wrightsman Pictures. Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2005.
- 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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