Who painted “Mazeppa and the Wolves”?

“Mazeppa and the Wolves” was painted by Horace Vernet in 1826. Where to see it: Calvet Museum.

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Romanticism: Neoclassicism is cool and linear; Romanticism is turbulent and colourful. Realism, which followed, replaced drama with ordinary life.

Émile Jean-Horace Vernet (30 June 1789 – 17 January 1863), better known as Horace Vernet, was a French painter of battles, portraits, and Orientalist subjects. Wikipedia

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More by Horace Vernet

“Polish Prometheus”, 1831
“Angel of the Death”, 1851
“The barrier of Clichy”, 1820
“Edith Recovering Harold's Body after the Battle of Hastings”, 1828
“Allan M'Aulay”, 1823
“The battle of Jena, October 14, 1806”, 1836
“The Battle of Bouvines”, 1827
“Battle of Fontenoy, 11th of May 1745”, 1828