The Siege of Constantine (French: La prise de Constantine) is an 1838 history painting by the French artist Horace Vernet depicting a scene from the French conquest of Algeria. It portrays French troops storming the city of Constantine on 13 October 1838.https://collections.chateauversailles.fr/#/query/759eeff8-7f16-4321-8154-c30df7d7c6c4 It was one of a trilogy of paintings Vernet produced depicting different stages of the siege. It forms the third part of a Triptych.Hornstein p.114-117 The work was displayed at the Salon of 1839 at the Louvre in Paris. The painting was commissioned by Louis Philippe I for the Musée de l'Histoire de France at the Palace of Versailles.https://pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/joconde/000PE005256
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Bibliography Harkett, Daniel & Hornstein, Katie (ed.) Horace Vernet and the Thresholds of Nineteenth-Century Visual Culture. Dartmouth College Press, 2017. Hornstein, Katie. Picturing War in France, 1792–1856. Yale University Press, 2018. Sessions, Jennifer E. By Sword and Plow: France and the Conquest of Algeria. Cornell University Press, 2015.