An Algerian Lady Hawking is an 1839 genre painting by the French artist Horace Vernet.Ingamells p.311 It was one of a number of paintings he produced inspired by his visits to North Africa during the French Conquest of Algeria. It depicts a wealthy lady on horseback hawking, a popular form of hunting, against the Sahara desert backdrop. Vernet was a prominent painter of the Romantic movement, who produced a number of popular Orientalist works.
An engraving based on the work was exhibited at the Salon of 1841.https://wallacelive.wallacecollection.org/eMP/eMuseumPlus?service=ExternalInterface&module=collection&objectId=65544&viewType=detail The painting is now in the Wallace Collection in London, having been acquired by the Marquess of Hertford. https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/an-algerian-lady-hawking-209652
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Ingamells, John. The Wallace Collection: French Nineteenth Century. Trustees of the Wallace Collection, 1985. Harkett, Daniel & Hornstein, Katie (ed.) Horace Vernet and the Thresholds of Nineteenth-Century Visual Culture. Dartmouth College Press, 2017. Ruutz-Rees, Janet Emily. Horace Vernet. Scribner and Welford, 1880.