Mamluks, Horace Vernet - Egypt
Summary
Masacre de mamelucos en El Cairo ordenada por Mehmet Ali in 1811.
Horace Vernet (1789–1863) was a French painter of sporting subjects and vast battle panoramas, notably those in the Gallery of Battles at Versailles. The son and grandson, respectively, of two well-known painters, Carle Vernet and Joseph Vernet, Horace developed a remarkable facility for working on a grand scale and became one of France’s most important military painters.
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Date
1850
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Wikimedia Commons
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public domain