The Duel After the Masquerade [SEP] collection
The Duel After the Masquerade
The Duel After the Masquerade is a painting by the French artist Jean-Léon Gérôme, currently housed in the Musée Condé in Chantilly, France.
History.
In 1859, William Thompson Walters purchased "The Duel After the Masquerade" at the National Academy of Design in New York for $2,500. The painting is a replica by Gérôme of his 1857 work "Suite d'un bal masqué", painted for the duc d'Aumale. The original is part of the collection of the Musée Condé
of 1909–1910, Baltimoreans were asked to identify their fifty-five favorite works of art and "The Duel After the Masquerade" topped the list.
Composition.
The scene is set on a gray winter morning in the Bois de Boulogne, trees bare and snow covering the ground. A man dressed as a Pierrot has been mortally wounded in a duel and has collapsed into the arms of a Duc de Guise. A surgeon, dressed as a doge of Venice, tries to stop the flow of blood, while a