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Horace Vernet



 


 
Horace Vernet

(b Paris, 30 June 1789; d Paris, 17 Jan 1863).

Painter, son of Carle Vernet. He was born in his father’s lodgings at the Palais du Louvre, where his grandfather Joseph Vernet also lived; his maternal grandfather was Jean-Michel Moreau. To these antecedents and influences are ascribed the supreme ease of his public career, his almost incredible facility and his fecundity. His early training in his father’s studio was supplemented by formal academic training with François-André Vincent until 1810, when he competed unsuccessfully for the Prix de Rome. He first exhibited at the Salon in 1812. In 1814 Vernet received the Légion d’honneur for the part he played in the defence of Paris, which he commemorated in the Clichy Gate: The Defence of Paris, 30 March 1814 (1820; Paris, Louvre), a spirited painting that represented a manifesto of Liberal opposition to Restoration oppression.


 




 

Angel of the Death



 


Portrait of an Arab
 


 


The Wounded Trumpeter



 

Madame Philippe Le Noir

1814



 

The lion hunter



 

Judith and Holofernes



 

Raphael and Pope Leo X



 

The Battle of Habra, Algeria, in December 1835 Between Emir Abd El Kadar and the Duke of Orleans



 

Napoleonic battle in the Alps



 

Village Musicians



 

Plague in Barcelona




 

A Fisherman Setting Out



 

The Lion Hunt



 

Portrait of Emperor Nicholas I
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