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Carle also called:
Charlot
Original name:
Antoine-Charles-Horace Vernet
Born:
August 14, 1758, Bordeaux, France
Died:
November 27, 1836, Paris (aged 78)
Notable Family Members:
father Joseph Vernet
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Vernet, Carle: French Race Horses
Vernet, Carle: French Race Horses French Race Horses, hand-coloured lithograph by Carle Vernet, undated; in the collection of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Carle Vernet

French painter
Also known as: Antoine-Charles-Horace Vernet, Charlot Vernet
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Carle Vernet (born August 14, 1758, Bordeaux, France—died November 27, 1836, Paris) was a French painter of battle scenes for Napoleon I and of sporting subjects, notably horses, for King Louis XVIII.

Vernet, Carle: Hussard Striking a Mameluck
Vernet, Carle: Hussard Striking a MameluckHussard Striking a Mameluck, lithograph by Carle Vernet, undated; in the collection of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

The son of the popular landscapist Joseph Vernet, the younger Vernet early exhibited a gift for painting and came to develop an acute eye for natural detail. Although Napoleon commanded him to paint vast battle scenes, such as Marengo (1804), his real talent was for intimate genre and for drawing rather than for painting. His long series of fashionable studies, often satirizing contemporary manners and costume, were reproduced by the best engravers of the time. After the restoration of the monarchy, Vernet became court painter to Louis XVIII.

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