An Invalid Submitting a Petition to Napoleon at a Parade in the Courtyard of the Tuileries Palace by VERNET, Horace

VERNET, Horace

(b. 1789, Paris, d. 1863, Paris)

	An Invalid Submitting a Petition to Napoleon at a Parade in the Courtyard of the Tuileries Palace 1838 Oil on canvas, 215 x 326 cm The Hermitage, St. Petersburg
This large canvas is one of the paintings Vernet produced for the Russian Emperor Nicholas I. The subject, a parade at the Tuileries, was suggested to Vernet by the emperor, who also requested that the composition include the episode involving the invalid.