Imperial Guard Soldier - Pasadena, CA
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This painting of one of Napolean's wounded soldiers is located in the Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena.
Waymark Code: WMHQ5C
Location: California, United States
Date Posted: 08/03/2013
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The Museum's website for this painting (
visit link) informs us:
"A Soldier on the Field of Battle, 1818
Horace Vernet
French, 1789-1863
Oil on canvas
18-1/16 x 21-5/8 in. (46 x 55 cm)
Norton Simon Art Foundation
M.1977.26.3.P
© 2012 Norton Simon Art Foundation
On view
A wounded grenadier of Napoleon’s Imperial Guard has just buried his fallen comrades in the aftermath of the battle of Waterloo. In the tradition of Romantic landscape painting, the solitary figure sits in a ruined landscape, absorbed in his melancholy meditations on the horrors of war. The fiery rays of the sun setting behind clouds and the flashes of lightning seem to heighten the drama of military defeat, which is also signaled by the downturned torches on the original frame."
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