The Ballad of Lenore (French: La Ballade de Lénore) is an 1839 oil painting by the French artist Horace Vernet.[1] Distinctly Romantic in style, it is based on the 1770 Gothic ballad Lenore by Gottfried August Bürger.[2] A young woman waits for her fiancée to return from fighting in the Seven Years War only to find the man who comes to collect her on horseback is a skeleton.
| The Ballad of Lenore | |
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| Artist | Horace Vernet |
| Year | 1839 |
| Type | Oil on canvas, genre painting |
| Dimensions | 61 cm × 55 cm (24 in × 22 in) |
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Vernet was best known for his scenes depicting battle scenes from recent French history, but was a key figure in the French romantic movement. The painting is now in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts in Nantes, which acquired it in 1854.[3]
References
edit- ↑ Ferber p. 24
- ↑ Trapp p.173-4
- ↑ Joconde (French)
Bibliography
edit- Ferber, Michael. Romanticism: A Very Short Introduction. OUP Oxford, 2010.
- 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.
- Trapp, Frank. The Attainment of Delacroix. Johns Hopkins Press, 1970.
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