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An inscription on the painting indicates that it was painted in St. Petersburg. The figure wears traditional Russian furs and boots, making his way across a snowy landscape. Horace Vernet largely rejected the academic French style and the classicist influences of Jacques-Louis David, and instead painted subjects taken from contemporary culture.
The painting is signed, inscribed and dated lower right: 'St. Petg. Vernet 1843'.
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