The Brigand Betrayed

The Brigand Betrayed is an 1828 genre painting by the French artist Horace Vernet. It depicts a bandit lured into a trap by a young woman, as a Papal dragoon waits behind a rock with a pistol. It was produced the year Vernet took up his position as director of the French Academy in Rome, around the same time as his A Roman Herdsman Driving Cattle. He was likely influenced by paintings of bandits produced by Léopold Robert . Today the painting is in the Wallace Collection in London, having been acquired by the Marquess of Hertford in 1870.

See also

• Italian Brigands Surprised by Papal Troops, an 1831 painting by Vernet

References

Bibliography

• Ingamells, John. The Wallace Collection: French Nineteenth Century. Trustees of the Wallace Collection, 1985.
• Harkett, Daniel & Hornstein, Katie (ed.) Horace Vernet and the Thresholds of Nineteenth-Century Visual Culture. Dartmouth College Press, 2017.