Horace Vernet

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Self-portrait
Judas and Tamar (1840)
The battle of Jena (1836)
Slave market (1836)

Horace Emile Jean Vernet (born June 30, 1789 in Paris ; † January 17, 1863 ibid) was a French historical and military painter and lithographer .

Life

Vernet received his artistic training from his father Antoine Charles Horace Vernet and from his grandfather Jean-Michel Moreau . A kind of internship with the painter François-André Vincent was not very productive for him (according to his own statement).

At the age of 22, Vernet married Louise Jeanne Pujol in 1811. With her he had a daughter; the future wife of the painter Paul Delaroche .

In 1814, Vernet was under the command of Marshal Bon-Adrien-Jeannot de Moncey to defend the barrier of Clichy. With the painting Defense de la barrière Clichy in 1820, he immortalized this event on canvas. In the same year, Vernet and his father set out on a study trip through Italy .

In 1826 the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Paris appointed Vernet to succeed Jean Jacques Le Barbier (1738–1826). In 1829 Vernet was promoted to director of the Académie de France in Rome . He held this office until 1835 when he passed it on to Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres . Between 1839 and 1840 Vernet traveled to the Orient with his student Frédéric Goupil-Fresquet.

Vernet returned to Paris and won King Louis Philippe as a patron . With this and with his enormous work, which he geared entirely to the taste of the audience, he achieved a sensational breakthrough. Through occasional trips he won new clients: B. In 1836 and again in 1842 Vernet stayed in Saint Petersburg and portrayed the tsarist family . In New York , Horace Vernet was elected an Honorary NA of the National Academy of Design in 1845 . During the Crimean War , Vernet again joined the French army and brought home many pictures of them; one of the most famous is the painting Battle of the Alma (September 20, 1854).

Vernet was never able to recover from a riding accident and spent his final years largely unproductive. At the age of 73, Emile Jean Horace Vernet died on January 17, 1863 in Paris.

Trivia

In the Sherlock Holmes story of the Greek interpreter , Horace Vernet is said to be a great-uncle of Sherlock Holmes.

Selection of works

  • 18 ??: Prize de Glatz (Taking of Glatz), gold medal of the Paris Salon 1812
  • 18 ??: Prize de Breslau (capture of Breslau on January 7, 1807)
  • 1823: Alan MacAulay
  • 1830: Louise Vernet, fille de l'artiste (Louise Vernet, daughter of the artist), Paris, Musée du Louvre
  • 1836: Slave market , Berlin, Alte Nationalgalerie
  • 1839: Histoire de l'empereur Napoléon (by Paul-Mathieu Laurent), Paris
  • 1840/43: Juda et Thamar (Judas and Tamar), Dijon, Musée Magnin
  • 1845: Prize de la Smala d'Abd El-Kader (taking the Smala from Abd el-Kader ), Versailles, Musée national du château de Versailles et des Trianons
  • 1846: Louis-Philippe et ses fils à cheval devant le château de Versailles (Louis-Philppe and his sons on horseback in front of the Palace of Versailles), Versailles, Musée national du château de Versailles et des Trianons
  • ????: Officier de Highlanders (Officer of the Highlanders), Musée de la Sénatorerie, Guéret
  • 1859/60: The Battle of Solferino , Heeresgeschichtliches Museum , Vienna.

literature

  • Blanche Besserve: Une famille de peintres. Horace Vernet et ses ancêtres . Desclée de Bouwer, Lille 1891.
  • Charles Blanc: Les trois Vernet. Une famille d'Artistes, Joseph, Carle, Horace . Renouard, Paris 1898.
  • François Fossier (Ed.): Horace Vernet, 1829–1834 correspondance . Le Puits aux Livres, Saint Haon-le-Vieux 2010, ISBN 978-2-9534865-1-3 .
  • Frédéric Goupil-Fesquet: Voyage d'Horace Vernet en Orient. Orné de seize designs . Challamel, Paris 1843.
  • Daniel Harkett, Katie Hornstein: Horace Vernet and the Thresholds of Nineteenth-Century Visual Culture. Dartmouth College Press, Hanover 2017, ISBN 978-1-5126-0042-1 .
  • Étienne de Jouy, Antoine Jay: Salon d'Horace Vernet. Analysis historique et pittoresque de 45 tableaux exposés chez lui en 1822 . Ponthieu, Paris 1822.
  • Laura H. Neis: Ultra-Royalism and Romanticism. The Duc de Blacas ' patronage of Ingres, Delacroix, and Horace Vernet . Dissertation, University of Wisconsin 1987.
  • Claudine Renaudeau: Horace Vernet (1789-1863). Chronologie et catalogie raisonné de l'œuvre . Dissertation, University of Paris 1999.
  • Janet E. Ruutz Rees: Horace Vernet . Scribner & Welford, New York 1880.
  • Théophile Silvestre: Histoire des artistes vivants. Français et étrangers, études d'après nature, Vernet, Ingres, Delacroix , Corot , Chenavard , Decamps , Barye , Peña , Courbet , Préault , Rude . Blanchard, Paris 1856.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Janet E. Ruutz Rees: Horace Vernet . Scribner & Welford, New York 1880.
  2. ↑ nationalacademy.org: Past Academicians "V" / Vernet, Emile Jean Horace Honorary 1845 ( Memento of the original from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on July 18, 2015) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.nationalacademy.org

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personal data
SURNAME Vernet, Horace
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Vernet, Horace Emile Jean (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French history and military painter and lithographer
DATE OF BIRTH June 30, 1789
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH January 17, 1863
Place of death Paris