The Brigand Betrayed

The Brigand Betrayed is an 1828 genre painting by the French artist Horace Vernet. It depicts a bandit lured into a trap by a young woman, as a Papal dragoon waits behind a rock with a pistol. It was produced the year Vernet took up his position as director of the French Academy in Rome, around the same time as his A Roman Herdsman Driving Cattle. He was likely influenced by paintings of bandits produced by Léopold Robert. Today the painting is in the Wallace Collection in London, having been acquired by the Marquess of Hertford in 1870.