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The Abduction of Rebecca by a Knight Templar

Attributed to Léon Cogniet French
1828 or later
Not on view
The subject is drawn from Sir Walter Scott’s Ivanhoe (1820), in which the knight Templar Brian de Bois-Guilbert, together with his enslaved Muslim warrior and the Jewish heroine Rebecca, escape from the burning Torquilstone Castle. This painting is a reduced variant of one completed in 1828 and exhibited at the Salon of 1831 (Wallace Collection, London). The eclectic mix of types, medieval themes, and dramatic action was a mainstay of Romanticism: a later rendition of this subject by Cogniet’s contemporary Eugène Delacroix is also in The Met’s collection (03.30).

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: The Abduction of Rebecca by a Knight Templar
  • Artist: Attributed to Léon Cogniet (French, Paris 1794–1880 Paris)
  • Date: 1828 or later
  • Medium: Oil on canvas
  • Dimensions: 12 7/8 x 15 5/8 in. (32.7 x 39.7 cm)
  • Classification: Paintings
  • Credit Line: The Whitney Collection, Promised Gift of Wheelock Whitney III, and Purchase, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Charles S. McVeigh, by exchange, 2003

  • Object Number: 2003.42.11
  • Curatorial Department: European Paintings

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The Prix de Rome Winners of 1817: Léon Cogniet, Achille Michallon and Antoine Garnaud, Léon Cogniet French, Graphite on wove paper
The Prix de Rome Winners of 1817: Léon Cogniet, Achille Michallon and Antoine Garnaud
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1817
Ceramic Horn, Glazed pottery, French
Ceramic Horn
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late 18th or early 19th century
Self-Portrait with Two Pupils, Marie Gabrielle Capet (1761–1818) and Marie Marguerite Carraux de Rosemond (1765–1788), Adélaïde Labille-Guiard French, Oil on canvas
Self-Portrait with Two Pupils, Marie Gabrielle Capet (1761–1818) and Marie Marguerite Carraux de Rosemond (1765–1788)
Adélaïde Labille-Guiard
1785
The Italian Brigand's Wife, Léon Cogniet French, Oil on canvas, mounted on wood
The Italian Brigand's Wife
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Osage Warrior, Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin French, Watercolor and graphite on off-white wove paper, American
Osage Warrior
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