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The Capture of Cartouche
PRYDE, James (1866 - 1941)
Media: oil on canvas
Size: 41.2 x 31.0 cm
Acquired: 1914; Purchase; Pyke Thompson funds
Accession Number: NMW A 823
Louis-Dominique Cartouche was a celebrated French burglar and footpad who was betrayed by an associate and executed in 1721. In 1905-1908 Pryde also produced a lithograph of the same character as part of his portfolio of six Portraits of Celebrated Criminals. This scene bears little resemblance to the account of Cartouche's fall in Charles Whibley's A Book of Scoundrels published in 1910.
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