Conrad the Corsair

Conrad the Corsair
Artist	Horace Vernet
Year	1824
Type	Oil on canvas
Dimensions	64.5 cm × 54.2 cm (25.4 in × 21.3 in)
Location	Wallace Collection, London

Conrad the Corsair is an 1824 oil painting by the French artist Horace Vernet.^[1][2] Inspired by Lord Byron's 1814 poem The Corsair it depicts Conrad, a pirate notorious across the Aegean Sea seated in a cave as two of his men approach.^[3] Along with Walter Scott, Byron was a popular literary source for younger French painters, particularly those in the romantic movement. Vernet was the first French artist to depict scenes from Byron's works.^[4]

Today it is in the collection of the Wallace Collection in London, having been acquired by the Marquess of Hertford in 1860.^[5]

• Fahy, Everett (ed.) The Wrightsman Pictures. Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2005.
• Ingamells, John. The Wallace Collection: French Nineteenth Century. Trustees of the Wallace Collection, 1985.
• Harkett, Daniel & Hornstein, Katie (ed.) Horace Vernet and the Thresholds of Nineteenth-Century Visual Culture. Dartmouth College Press, 2017.
• Noon, Patrick & Bann, Stephen. Constable to Delacroix: British Art and the French Romantics. Tate, 2003.

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