Judah and Tamar

Judah and Tamar
Artist	Horace Vernet
Year	1840
Type	Oil on canvas
Dimensions	129 cm × 97.5 cm (51 in × 38.4 in)
Location	Wallace Collection, London

Judah and Tamar is an 1840 oil painting by the French artist Horace Vernet. It portrays a biblical scene featuring the windowed Tamar who seduces her father-in-law Judah while disguised as a prostitute.[1] Vernet was inspired by his trips to recently conquered Algeria to paint biblical scenes featuring Arabs.[2]

Vernet exhibited the work at the Salon of 1843 at the Louvre in Paris. Today it is in the Wallace Collection in London, having been acquired by Marquess of Hertford in 1865.[3]

References

1. Rendall & Mendus p.118
2. Harkett & Hornstein p.12
3. https://wallacelive.wallacecollection.org/eMP/eMuseumPlus?service=ExternalInterface&module=collection&objectId=65280&viewType=detailView

Bibliography

• Duffy, Stephen. The Wallace Collection. Scala, 2005.
• Ingamells, John. The Wallace Collection: French Nineteenth Century. Trustees of the Wallace Collection, 1985.
• Harkett, Daniel & Hornstein, Katie (ed.) Horace Vernet and the Thresholds of Nineteenth-Century Visual Culture. Dartmouth College Press, 2017.
• Rendall, Jane & Mendus, Sarah. '"Sexuality and Subordination: Interdisciplinary Studies of Gender in the Nineteenth Century. Taylor & Francis, 2002.