Carle Vernet

See also: Vernet

Carle Vernet (Antoine Charles Horace Vernet, known as Carle Vernet), born with Bordeaux the August 14th 1758 and died in Paris the November 17th 1836, is a painter, draftsman and lithographer French.

He was the pupil of Nicolas-Bernard Lépicié.

Wire of Claude Joseph Vernet and father of Horace Vernet, it inaugurated, with Gros, military painting, and it excelled in huntings, the small trades of Paris and the popular scenes: Hunting for the Deer with Rambouillet , the Dog of the Duke of Enghien , etc But over all, Carle Vernet was the impassioned painter of the horse. It had a major knowledge of it.

When, visiting the Living room of 1808, Napoleon i had admired the Morning of Austerlitz , undoubtedly the best fabric of Carle Vernet, it gave the Cross of the to him Légion of honor. The two men knew each other already well, since Carle Vernet had accompanied the Emperor, then First Consul, during the countryside of Marengo. The empress Joséphine says to him: “He is men who trail a name; you, Mr Vernet, you carry yours”.

Carle Vernet was Franc-maçon and belonged to the cabin of the Last nine Sisters.

The famous military collectors Jean and Raoul Brunon, creator of the museum of the Army to the Castle of Empéri to Living room of Provence, paid homage in 1959 to him by clarifying some of its boards representatives of the soldiers of the regiments of Empire in a book: the Large army of 1812 .

It should be noted that a street bears its name to Bordeaux and Sevres.

Works

the Anglomaniac , engraving
Small trades of Paris: the merchant of baskets , the bouquetière etc

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