1826
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Dominant colour
La Reconciliation is a 1826 ink by Horace Vernet, a Romanticism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
A man and woman embrace in a dim room, their faces close, hands clasped. A child reaches up toward them, one arm stretched, face turned toward the viewer. Furniture sits shadowed in the background. This print shows a moment of family healing after conflict. Though painted during the Romantic era, it focuses on quiet emotion, not drama. Horace Vernet made this as a lithograph, a method where an artist draws on stone with a greasy crayon, then ink and paper are pressed to create copies. It was a new way to share images widely in the 1800s. Lithography allowed artists to reach more people without expensive paintings. Look up lithography to see how it changed art.
Émile Jean-Horace Vernet (French pronunciation: ; 30 June 1789 – 17 January 1863), better known as Horace Vernet, was a French painter of battles, portraits, and Orientalist subjects.
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