Bronze Age Gold from Wales

The Capture of Cartouche

PRYDE, James (1866-1941)

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.

Collection Area

Art

Item Number

NMW A 823

Creation/Production

PRYDE, James
Date:

Acquisition

Purchase - Pyke Thompson funds, 9/1914
Purchased with funds bequeathed by James Pyke-Thompson

Measurements

Height (cm): 41.2
Width (cm): 31
Height (in): 16
Width (in): 12

Techniques

canvas

Material

oil

Location

In store
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