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The hired assassins
(Les Bravi)
1852
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Measurements
- 40.4 × 33.1 cm
- Inscription
- inscribed in brown paint l.l.: EM (monogram) . 52
- Accession Number
- 761-2
- Department
- International Painting
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased, 1914
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- Not on display
- About this work
-
Meissonier painted two known variations of this composition which are actually smaller than this version. In his lifetime, such small theatrical paintings were thought to be his masterpieces in which he captured in minutae the finest detail of historical costume and other objects.
- Subjects (general)
- Human Figures Violence
- Subjects (specific)
- assassins jerkins (jackets) men (male humans) murderers murders (deaths) panelling scenes (depictions) swords
- Provenance
- Collection of George Sutherland Esq., by 1913; from whom purchased, using a Government grant, on the advice of Bernard Hall, 13 October 1913, accessioned 1914.
