Horace Vernet

Biography

Wire of Carle Vernet and grandson of Claude Joseph Vernet, it brilliantly follows the traces of those in the military painting of which it made his speciality. In this field, it appeared a painter brilliant, but surface, one owes him of the scenes of battles, sport, and subjects Eastern.

Already famous painter in his time, he was director of the Académie from France to Rome of 1829 to 1834. He took the first Daguerréotype port of Marseilles in 1839. Nouveau riche, it acquires in 1855 a field with the place known as " Bormettes " , on the territory of the commune of the Londe-the-Moors, then simple suburb of Hyères. Charmed by the beauty of the site whose bluish water and the bent hills pointed out Algeria to him where it had remained before. It was made there build a vast medieval castle made up of various bodies of heteroclite buildings and style various.

Works

Juda and Thamar , Living room of 1843, n° 1167 ( Prone drawn from the Genesis CH. XXXVIII ), signed H. Vernet dated 1840 and located Malta , London, Wallace Collection,

Caricatures

Horace Vernet drew a caricature representing the king Louis XVIII coming from déféquer, with its feet a étron, at its sides, a character preparing with torcher the royal posterior one. Annotated hand of the artist: carries It on our premises cotton of King Louis Dixhuit made by Horace Vernet on December 20th, 1816 . The expression carry-cotton was a function of lackey " employee with the service of the latrines". Littré Volume 3 p. 4855. This drawing coming from the collection of colonel Louis Bro, friend of Horace Vernet, was sold with the biddings in Rheims on December 18th, 2005, n° 172 of the catalog where it is reproduced. It was offered to the 3Ecole Nationale Sup3erieure of the Art schools, by an association. Bibliography Re-examined of Louvre , 2006-4, page 96.

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