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Horace Vernet: The Taking of the Malakoff Redoubt

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

Français : La prise de Malakoff

English: The Taking of the Malakoff Redoubt

Object type

painting

Genre

history painting

Description

English: The taking of the Malakoff Redoubt by the French General Mac Mahon and his Zouaves.

Français : La prise de la forteresse de Malakoff par le général Mac Mahon et ses zouaves lors du siège de Sébastopol. Horace Vernet avait consulté le général Mac Mahon avant de réaliser ce tableau, commande de la population d'Autun où résidait la famille Mac Mahon. Voir l'article sur Wikipédia J'y suis, j'y reste

Depicted people

Patrice de Mac-Mahon

Date

1858

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

height: 219.5 cm (86.4 in)

; width: 144 cm (56.6 in)

Collection

Musée Rolin

	Location	Autun , France
	Coordinates	46° 56′ 44.7″ N, 4° 17′ 57.7″ E
	Authority file	: Q391823 VIAF: 159000636 ISNI: 0000000121946805 LCCN: n50068159 GND: 1053222-5 SUDOC: 026434792 WorldCat

Accession number

H.V. 28 (Musée Rolin)

References

Authority file

: Q26869832
Joconde: 01610002064

Source/Photographer

http://www.britishbattles.com/military-prints/crimean.htm

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	Date/Time	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	09:42, 16 February 2015	749 × 1,138 (235 KB)	Blaue Max	higher quality
	20:39, 15 February 2013	280 × 436 (22 KB)	Xerse~commonswiki	Reverted to version as of 18:51, 22 August 2007
	09:18, 7 September 2012	387 × 600 (41 KB)	Moustachioed Womanizer	better quality
	18:51, 22 August 2007	280 × 436 (22 KB)	BrokenSphere	{{Information \|Description=The taking of the Malakoff Redoubt in 1858; a British officer salutes the French flag \|Source=Downloaded from http://www.britishbattles.com/military-prints/crimean.htm \|Date=1858 \|Author=Emile Jean Horace Vernet \|Permission=See