The Brigand Betrayed
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| Artist | Horace Vernet |
| Year | 1828 |
| Type | Oil on canvas, genre painting |
| Dimensions | 53 cm × 64 cm (21 in × 25 in) |
| Location | Wallace Collection, London |
The Brigand Betrayed is an 1828 genre painting by the French artist Horace Vernet.[1] It depicts a bandit lured into a trap by a young woman, as a Papal dragoon waits behind a rock with a pistol.[2] It was produced the year Vernet took up his position as director of the French Academy in Rome, around the same time as his A Roman Herdsman Driving Cattle. He was likely influenced by paintings of bandits produced by Léopold Robert . Today the painting is in the Wallace Collection in London, having been acquired by the Marquess of Hertford in 1870.[3]
