Portrait of Marshal Saint-Cyr

Portrait of Marshal Saint-Cyr is an 1821 portrait painting by the French artist Horace Vernet.^{[1] [2]} It depicts Laurent de Gouvion Saint-Cyr, a former Marshal of the Empire under Napoleon. In 1817 he was appointed as Minister of War during the post-war Restoration era.^[3]

Portrait of Marshal Saint-Cyr
Artist	Horace Vernet
Year	1821
Type	Oil on canvas, portrait painting
Dimensions	215 cm × 140 cm (85 in × 55 in)
Location	Palace of Versailles, Versailles

Rather than the more common state portrait Saint-Cyr is shown as a man of action, lit by lamplight in a military camp planning the next day's campaigning.^[4] Vernet exhibited at the Salon of 1824 in Paris.^[5] Today it is in the collection of the Palace of Versailles.^[6]

References

1. Gordon p.106
2. Chaudonneret p.175
3. Boime p.139
4. Gordon p.31
5. Ruutz-Rees p.47
6. https://pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/joconde/000PE004836

Bibliography

• Boime, Albert. A Social History of Modern Art, Volume 3: Art in Age of Counterrevolution. University of Chicago Press, 2004.
• Chaudonneret, Marie-Claude. L'état et les artistes: de la restauration à la monarchie de Juillet (1815-1833). Flammarion, 1999.
• Gordon, Alden R. Masterpieces from Versailles: Three Centuries of French Portraiture. Smithsonian Institution, 1983
• Harkett, Daniel & Hornstein, Katie (ed.) Horace Vernet and the Thresholds of Nineteenth-Century Visual Culture. Dartmouth College Press, 2017.
• Ruutz-Rees, Janet Emily. Horace Vernet. Scribner and Welford, 1880.