
The Start of the Race of the Riderless Horses
Horace VernetWW-1820-004153
Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Collection, Bequest of Catharine Lorillard Wolfe, 1887
Catalogue
- Year
- 1820
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 18 1/8 x 21 1/4 in. (46 x 54 cm)
- Collection
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Artist
- Horace Vernet
Artist

Horace Vernet
Painting
Émile Jean-Horace Vernet, better known as Horace Vernet, was a French painter of battles, portraits, and Orientalist subjects.
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Record
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- Horace Vernet
- Year
- 1820
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 18 1/8 x 21 1/4 in. (46 x 54 cm)
- Watts ID
- WW-1820-004153
Source
- Collection
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Source
- met
- Reference
- View at source
- Status
- verified



