Homecoming Heroes

Soldiers at their most triumphant — banners up, chins high, battle won.

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The Abduction of Rebecca

Eugène Delacroix · 1846

Samson Captured by the Philistines

Guercino · 1619

Study for the Equestrian Monument to Francesco Sforza

Antonio del Pollaiuolo · early to mid 1480s

The Abduction of the Sabine Women

Niccolo Pussino · probably 1633–34

Wolf and Fox Hunt

Peter Paul Rubens · ca. 1616

Louis Gueymard (1822–1880) as Robert le Diable

Gustave Courbet · 1857

The Sacrifice of Polyxena

Charles Le Brun · 1647

Battle of the Nude Men

Antonio del Pollaiuolo · ca. 1470–90

Leonidas at Thermopylae

Jacques-Louis David · ca. 1812–13

1807, Friedland

Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier · ca. 1861–75

Battle between Christians and Muslims at El Sotillo

Francisco de Zurbarán · ca. 1637–39

Alcibiades Interrupting the Symposium; verso: Sketches of the Baptism of Christ and of a Man

Peter Paul Rubens · ca. 1601–02 (recto); ca. 1601 (verso)

Soldier Playing the Theorbo

Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier · 1865

The Betrothal of the Virgin

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo · ca. 1770

The Companions of Rinaldo

Niccolo Pussino · ca. 1633

The Investiture of Bishop Harold as Duke of Franconia

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · ca. 1751–52

The Resurrection

Pietro Perugino

The Preaching of John the Baptist

Bartholomeus Breenbergh · 1634

The Combat of the Giaour and Hassan

Eugène Delacroix · 1826

Friar Pedro Shoots El Maragato as His Horse Runs Off

Francisco Goya · c. 1806

Armida Encounters the Sleeping Rinaldo

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · c. 1742–45

The Martyrdom of Saint Paul

Taddeo Zuccari · ca. 1557–58

Pilate Washing His Hands

Mattia Preti · 1663

The Magnanimous Minister, Chastising Prussian Perfidy.–vide–Morning Chronicle April 28th

James Gillray · Hannah Humphrey · May 2, 1806

The Advance-Guard, or The Military Sacrifice (The Ambush)

Frederic Remington · 1890

The Mock Phoenix!!! Or a Vain Attempt to Rise Again

Napoléon Bonaparte · Rudolph Ackermann, London · Thomas Rowlandson · December 10, 1813

Scene in a New Pantomime to be Performed at the Theatre Royal Paris

Napoléon Bonaparte · Rudolph Ackermann, London · Thomas Rowlandson · April 12, 1815

Untitled

Katsushika Hokusai · dated 1790

Battle of the Nudes

Antonio del Pollaiuolo · 1470s–80s

Martyrdom of Saint Lawrence

Peter Paul Rubens · Anthony van Dyck · early 17th century

Hamlet Tries To Follow His Father's Ghost

Eugène Delacroix · William Shakespeare · Villain · 1835

King Joe's Reception at Madrid

Joseph Bonaparte · George Murgatroyd Woodward · Thomas Rowlandson · Thomas Tegg · August 21, 1808

R. Ackermann's Transparency on the Victory of Waterloo

Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington · Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher · Napoléon Bonaparte · Rudolph Ackermann, London · Thomas Rowlandson · June 1, 1815

Transparency: Exhibited at R. Ackermann's in the Strand on the 27th November 1815, the Day on which the General Peace was Celebrated in London

Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington · Rudolph Ackermann, London · Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher · Thomas Rowlandson · Louis XVIII, King of France · Napoléon Bonaparte · November 27, 1815

Standing Officer Holding a Boar's Spear

Hendrik Goltzius · 1586

The Lictors Bringing Brutus the Bodies of his Sons

Jacques-Louis David · 1787

The Sorcerer Atlante Abducting Pinabello's Lady (Ariosto, Orlando Furioso, canto II, 38)

Niccolo Pussino · ca. 1635–38

The Meeting of Antony and Cleopatra

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · ca. 1745–47

Bacchanal with Silenus

Andrea Mantegna · before 1475

Seated River God, Nymph with an Oar, and Putto

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · 1696–1770

Boxers

Théodore Géricault · 1818

Rinaldo in the Enchanted Forest

Jean-Honoré Fragonard · ca. 1763

Study for a Monument to a Princely Figure

François Boucher

Nursing the Spawn of a Tyrant

Napoléon II, King of Rome and Duke of Reichstadt · Napoléon Bonaparte · Thomas Tegg · Empress Marie Louise of France · Thomas Rowlandson · April 14, 1811