Carle Vernet
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Biography
Vernet was born in Bordeaux. At the age of five, he showed an extraordinary passion for drawing horses, but went through the regular academic course as a pupil of his father and of Nicolas-Bernard Lépicié. Strangely, after winning the Prix de Rome (1782), he seemed to lose interest in the occupation, and his father had to recall him from Rome to prevent his entering a monastery.[1]
In his "Triumph of Aemilius Paulus", Vernet broke with tradition and drew the horse with the forms he had learnt from nature in stables and riding schools.[1] His hunting pieces, races, landscapes, and work as a lithographer were also very popular.
Carle's sister was executed by the guillotine during the Revolution. After this, he gave up art.
When he again began to produce under the French Directory (1795–1799), his style had changed radically. He started drawing in minute detail battles and campaigns to glorify Napoleon.Script error: No such module "Unsubst". His drawings of Napoleon's Italian campaign won acclaim as did the Battle of Marengo, and for his Morning of Austerlitz Napoleon awarded him the Legion of Honour,[1] and Louis XVIII awarded him the Order of Saint Michael. Afterwards he excelled in hunting scenes and depictions of horses.
He produced a painting Capture of Pamplona celebrating the 1823 Siege of Pamplona which he exhibited at the Paris Salon of 1824.
In addition to being a painter and lithographer, Carle Vernet was an avid horseman. Just days before his death at the age of seventy-eight, he was seen racing as if he were a sprightly young man.
Literary references
In Maria Wirtemberska's novel Malvina, or the Heart's Intuition (1816; English translation 2001, by Ursula Phillips), it is said that a view that is being described merits the talent of Vernet, who as the writer explains in her own footnote was a sea painter.
Selected works
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Arrival of Emigres on the French Coast with the Duchess of Berry
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A Mameluke Leading His Horse
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Napoleon at the Battle of Borodino
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Un Incroyable, two French dandies, one bearing what may be the first recorded top hat
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See also
References
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- 1758 births
- 1835 deaths
- Painters from Bordeaux
- 18th-century French painters
- French male painters
- 19th-century French painters
- Prix de Rome for painting
- Recipients of the Legion of Honour
- Members of the Académie des beaux-arts
- 19th-century French male artists
- 18th-century French male artists
- Equine artists
- French sports painters