![Horace Vernet - The Angel of Death [1851] by Gandalf's Gallery](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/blogger_img_proxy/AEn0k_t-FUO9R4Ytz8b9I0mZr5EFmowW3cNT9tTTf2Iev7RDAdgTTGvpmuh8LhaHOhW6_aESG3-uMkd7w0dZfNYqDhyuYKlOdu6GmdrZfJrECl5b84VfCzU20isEemeI6uZ_HA=s0-d)
Émile Jean-Horace Vernet (Paris, June 30, 1789 - Paris, January 17, 1863) was a French painter of battles, portraits, and Orientalist Arab subjects. One well known and possibly apocryphal anecdote maintains that when Vernet was asked to remove a certain obnoxious general from one of his paintings, he replied, "I am a painter of history, sire, and I will not violate the truth," hence demonstrating his fidelity to representing war truthfully.
[Oil on canvas, 146 x 113 cm]
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