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Horace Vernet - The Tomb Of Napoleon In Sainte-Helene Or The Apotheosis Of Napoleon

The Tomb Of Napoleon In Sainte-Helene Or The Apotheosis Of Napoleon

Horace Vernet (French, 1789-1863)
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Horace Vernet

Émile Jean-Horace Vernet, more commonly known as simply Horace Vernet, was a French painter of battles, portraits, and Orientalist subjects.

Vernet was born to Carle Vernet, another famous painter, who was himself a son of Claude Joseph Vernet. He was born in the Paris Louvre, while his parents were staying there during the French Revolution. Vernet quickly developed a disdain for the high-minded seriousness of academic French a work which was distinguished by to paint subjects taken mostly from contemporary life. During his early career, when Napoleon Bonaparte was in power, he began depicting the French soldier in a more familiar, vernacular manner rather than in an idealized, Davidian fashion; he was just art influenced by Classicism, and decided twenty when he exhibited the Taking of an Entrenched Camp a good deal of character. Some other of his paintings that represent French soldiers in a more direct, less idealizing style, include Dog of the Regiment, Trumpeter's Horse, and Death of Poniatowski.

He gained recognition during the Bourbon Restoration for a series of battle paintings commissioned by the duc d'Orleans, the future King Louis-Philippe. Critics marvelled at the incredible speed with which he painted. Many of his paintings made during this early phase of his career were "noted for their historical accuracy as well as their charged landscapes." Examples of paintings in this style include his Four Battles series: The Battle of Jemappes (1821), The Battle of Montmirail (1822), The Battle of Hanau (1824), and The Battle of Valmy (1826). Enjoying equal favour with the court and with the opposition, he was appointed director of the French Academy in Rome, from 1829 to 1835.

Over the course of his long career, Horace Vernet was honoured with dozens of important commissions. King Louis-Philippe was one of his most prolific patrons, and the whole of the Constantine room at the Palace of Versailles was decorated by him, in the short space of three years. The King requested that he paint a gallery dedicated to the "fruits of colonization". At the time, France was colonizing Algeria through war, and claiming it to be part of their mission civilsatrice, or their "civilizing mission". In a neoclassical style, reflecting the Roman colonization in North Africa about 2000 years before, Horace painted stills of French non-commissioned officers training Algerian soldiers, French engineers building Algerian roads, and French soldiers tilling Algerian fields.

His depictions of Algerian battles, such as the Capture of the Smahla and the Capture of Constantine, were well-received by other French people, as they were vivid depictions of their army in the heat of battle. After the fall of the July Monarchy during the Revolution of 1848, Vernet discovered a new patron in Napoléon III of France. He continued to paint representations of the heroic French army during the Second Empire and maintained his commitment to and realistic way. He accompanied the French Army during the Crimean War, producing several paintings, truthfully including one of the Battle of the Alma, which was not as well received as his earlier paintings. One well known and possibly apocryphal anecdote maintains that when Vernet was asked to remove a certain obnoxious general from representing war in an accessible one of his paintings, he replied, "I am a painter of history, sire, and I will not violate the truth," hence demonstrating his fidelity to representing war.

Vernet also developed an interest in daguerreotype photography. He took photographs in Egypt as reference material for his paintings, and during a stop at Malta in March 1840 while en route to Egypt, he took the earliest known photographs of the island at Fort Manoel. Today these early photographs are believed to be lost.

Vernet died in his hometown of Paris in 1863.

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Study for the attack of Abd el Kader ‘s Smalah by the Duke d’Aumale

Study for the attack of Abd el Kader ‘s Smalah by the Duke d’Aumale

Horace Vernet (French, 1789-1863)
Duck Shooting

Duck Shooting (1824)

Horace Vernet (French, 1789-1863)
The Battle of Friedland, June 14,1807

The Battle of Friedland, June 14,1807 (1835)

Horace Vernet (French, 1789-1863)
Portrait of the poet André Chénier (1762-1794)

Portrait of the poet André Chénier (1762-1794) (1825)

Horace Vernet (French, 1789-1863)
Death And The Maiden

Death And The Maiden (1841)

Horace Vernet (French, 1789-1863)
Napoleon In Charleroi June 1815

Napoleon In Charleroi June 1815 (1823)

Horace Vernet (French, 1789-1863)
Portrait of the Widow Comtesse Jean-Henri-Louis Greffulhe, née Marie-Françoise-Célestine de Vintimille du Luc, later Comtesse Philippe-Paul de Ségur (1787-1862), in a Landscape

Portrait of the Widow Comtesse Jean-Henri-Louis Greffulhe, née Marie-Françoise-Célestine de Vintimille du Luc, later Comtesse Philippe-Paul de Ségur (1787-1862), in a Landscape (1825)

Horace Vernet (French, 1789-1863)
A Bashi-Bazouk

A Bashi-Bazouk (1860)

Horace Vernet (French, 1789-1863)
Voluntary Partisan

Voluntary Partisan (1822)

Horace Vernet (French, 1789-1863)
Death Of Prince Poniatowski On October 19th, 1813

Death Of Prince Poniatowski On October 19th, 1813 (1816)

Horace Vernet (French, 1789-1863)
African Hunter

African Hunter (1818)

Horace Vernet (French, 1789-1863)
The Lion Hunt

The Lion Hunt (1836)

Horace Vernet (French, 1789-1863)
Keizer Napoleon I en zijn staf te paard

Keizer Napoleon I en zijn staf te paard (1810 - 1850)

Horace Vernet (French, 1789-1863)
The Convicts

The Convicts (1826)

Horace Vernet (French, 1789-1863)
The Lion Hunter

The Lion Hunter (1833)

Horace Vernet (French, 1789-1863)
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