Portrait of Carle Vernet
| Portrait of Carle Vernet | |
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| Artist | Robert Lefèvre |
| Year | 1804 |
| Type | Oil on canvas, portrait painting |
| Dimensions | 129.5 cm × 97.5 cm (51.0 in × 38.4 in) |
| Location | Louvre, Paris |
Portrait of Carle Vernet is an 1804 portrait painting by the French artist Robert Lefèvre depicting his fellow painter Carle Vernet.[1][2][3]
Carle Vernet came from a family of artists. He was the son of the famous marine painter Claude-Joseph Vernet. His own son Horace Vernet was a noted painter of the nineteenth century. Lefèvre was a noted portraitist during the Napoleonic and Restoration eras.[4]
The painting was exhibited at the Salon of 1804.[5] It is now in the collection of the Louvre in Paris.[6]
References
[edit]- ^ Halliday p.161-62
- ^ French Painting 1774-1830, the Age of Revolution. Wayne State University Press, 1975. p.529
- ^ Bordes p.23
- ^ Palmer p.139
- ^ "CARLE VERNET (1758-1836)". pop.culture.gouv.fr.
- ^ "Carle Vernet (1758-1836), peintre". December 13, 1804 – via Musée du Louvre.
Bibliography
[edit]- Bordes, Phillipe. Portraiture in Paris Around 1800: Cooper Penrose by Jacques-Louis David. Timken Museum of Art, 2003.
- Halliday, Anthony. Facing the Public: Portraiture in the Aftermath of the French Revolution. Manchester University Press, 2000.
- Harkett, Daniel & Hornstein, Katie (ed.) Horace Vernet and the Thresholds of Nineteenth-Century Visual Culture. Dartmouth College Press, 2017.
- Palmer, Allison Lee. Historical Dictionary of Neoclassical Art and Architecture. Scarecrow Press, 2011.
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