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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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Léon Cogniet
Delpech
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Portrait of Théodore Gericault, Léon Cogniet French, Lithograph
Portrait of Théodore Gericault
Léon Cogniet
Théodore Gericault
ca. 1824
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
Multiple artists/makers
1817
Portrait of Théodore Gericault, Léon Cogniet French, Lithograph on chine collé
Portrait of Théodore Gericault
Léon Cogniet
Théodore Gericault
1824
The Italian Brigand's Wife, Léon Cogniet French, Oil on canvas, mounted on wood
The Italian Brigand's Wife
Léon Cogniet
ca. 1825–26

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