Portrait of Marshal Saint-Cyr
| Portrait of Marshal Saint-Cyr | |
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| Artist | Horace Vernet |
| Year | 1821 |
| Type | Oil on canvas, portrait painting |
| Dimensions | 215 cm × 140 cm (85 in × 55 in) |
| Location | Palace of Versailles, Versailles |
Portrait of Marshal Saint-Cyr is an 1821 portrait painting by the French artist Horace Vernet.[1] [2] It depicts Laurent de Gouvion Saint-Cyr, a former Marshal of the Empire under Napoleon. In 1817 he was appointed as Minister of War during the post-war Restoration era.[3]
Rather than the more common state portrait Saint-Cyr is shown as a man of action, lit by lamplight in a military camp planning the next day's campaigning.[4] Vernet exhibited at the Salon of 1824 in Paris.[5] Today it is in the collection of the Palace of Versailles.[6]
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- Chaudonneret, Marie-Claude. L'état et les artistes: de la restauration à la monarchie de Juillet (1815-1833). Flammarion, 1999.
- Gordon, Alden R. Masterpieces from Versailles: Three Centuries of French Portraiture. Smithsonian Institution, 1983
- 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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