Painting and Sculpture

Brigand and His Wife in Prayer

Brigand and His Wife in Prayer is an early 19th century painting by Léopold Robert. Done in oil paint on canvas, the work depicts a brigand and his wife in prayer before a cross in the mountains of central Italy. The painting is currently on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and is part of the museum's Whitney Collection, mostly French works from the 18th and 19th centuries collected and given by Wheelock Whitney III.

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• ▸Constantin Westchiloff
• ▸Coronel Church
• ▸Josip Račić

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