Painting and Sculpture

Judah and Tamar

Judah and Tamar is an 1840 oil painting by the French artist Horace Vernet. It portrays a biblical scene featuring the widowed Tamar who seduces her father-in-law Judah while disguised as a prostitute. Vernet exhibited the work at the Salon of 1843 at the Louvre in Paris. Today it is in the Wallace Collection in London, having been acquired by Marquess of Hertford in 1865.

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See also

• ▸Floyd Newsum
• ▸Alexandre de Rhodes
• ▸Camille Lemonnier in the Artist's Studio

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