# Judah and Tamar [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [VERNET, Horace]() - Date: 1801-1850 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 130 x 98 cm ## Commentary In France Orientalism was closely bound up with the Romantic movement, the most important representatives of which were Delacroix and Géricault. Beside these outstanding figures the list of painters of oriental themes extends unbroken to the end of the century and beyond. They have become known as the Orientalists throughout Europe. Horace Vernet belongs to the early French Orientalists. In Vernet's Judah and Tamar \(representing a story taken from the Bible\) Ingres' aestheticism is very evident in the rendering of the female body, in the beauty of line and the harmonious colouring. Generally, however, the artist has aimed for virtuosity in narrative detail and a meticulously faithful rendering of the textiles and accessories. ## Related artworks - [A Saddled Race Horse Tied to a Fence]() - [An Invalid Submitting a Petition to Napoleon at a Parade in the Courtyard of the Tuileries Palace]() - [Angel of Death]() - [Arab Chieftains in Council \(The Negotiator\)]() - [Equestrian portrait of Charles Albert, King of Sardinia]() - [Hunting Scene \(detail\)]() - [Hunting Scene]() - [Hunting Scene]() - [Louis-Philippe, Duc d'Orléans, in a Swiss Landscape]() - [Mazeppa and the Wolves]() - [Mazeppa]() - [Portrait of Nicholas I]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()