BAJOU Valerie.
Horace Vernet.
Faton/Chateau de Versailles
Regular price
€54,00
| N° d'inventaire | 30232 |
| Format | 24.6 x 27.7 |
| Détails | 448 p., illustrated, publisher's hardcover. |
| Publication | Paris, 2024 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782878443448 |
Born in 1789 at the Louvre, Horace Vernet was the grandson of the painter Joseph Vernet and son of the horse painter Carle Vernet. Despite failing to win the Prix de Rome, he quickly gained the favor of Napoleon I. Initially evolving within the Romantic circle of the 1820s, he developed an easy and seductive style and began to study lithography. He became the favorite painter of the Duke of Orléans, the future Louis-Philippe.
The catalog highlights the importance of Horace Vernet's travels, particularly to Italy and Algeria. Appointed director of the French Academy in Rome in 1829, Horace Vernet discovered the great classical Italian models and experimented with history painting. In 1833, he discovered Algeria and focused on orientalist painting, alternating between civil, religious, and military subjects. Two years later, he was commissioned to depict the military conquests of Louis-Philippe's heirs in the African rooms of the Palace of Versailles.
The period of major commissions was punctuated by numerous trips to the Orient and Russia. Under the Second Empire, his career was celebrated during a retrospective of his work at the 1855 World's Fair. He died in 1863 after receiving the insignia of Grand Officer of the Legion of Honor. A prolific painter, praised and reviled by critics, Horace Vernet did not leave his contemporaries indifferent.
The exhibition will showcase the painter's ease of style and the richness of his favorite subjects, revealing his love of horses and hunting, his attachment to the Napoleonic epic and feats of arms, his taste for Romantic literature and Lord Byron, and for the depiction of his family origins. A complete painter, Horace Vernet excelled in all genres. More than forty years after the last exhibition devoted to Vernet, this retrospective of around 200 works will be an opportunity to discover many previously unseen masterpieces, accompanied by sketches and drawings that demonstrate the artist's working method.
The catalog highlights the importance of Horace Vernet's travels, particularly to Italy and Algeria. Appointed director of the French Academy in Rome in 1829, Horace Vernet discovered the great classical Italian models and experimented with history painting. In 1833, he discovered Algeria and focused on orientalist painting, alternating between civil, religious, and military subjects. Two years later, he was commissioned to depict the military conquests of Louis-Philippe's heirs in the African rooms of the Palace of Versailles.
The period of major commissions was punctuated by numerous trips to the Orient and Russia. Under the Second Empire, his career was celebrated during a retrospective of his work at the 1855 World's Fair. He died in 1863 after receiving the insignia of Grand Officer of the Legion of Honor. A prolific painter, praised and reviled by critics, Horace Vernet did not leave his contemporaries indifferent.
The exhibition will showcase the painter's ease of style and the richness of his favorite subjects, revealing his love of horses and hunting, his attachment to the Napoleonic epic and feats of arms, his taste for Romantic literature and Lord Byron, and for the depiction of his family origins. A complete painter, Horace Vernet excelled in all genres. More than forty years after the last exhibition devoted to Vernet, this retrospective of around 200 works will be an opportunity to discover many previously unseen masterpieces, accompanied by sketches and drawings that demonstrate the artist's working method.
The catalog highlights the importance of Horace Vernet's travels, particularly to Italy and Algeria. Appointed director of the French Academy in Rome in 1829, Horace Vernet discovered the great classical Italian models and experimented with history painting. In 1833, he discovered Algeria and focused on orientalist painting, alternating between civil, religious, and military subjects. Two years later, he was commissioned to depict the military conquests of Louis-Philippe's heirs in the African rooms of the Palace of Versailles.
The period of major commissions was punctuated by numerous trips to the Orient and Russia. Under the Second Empire, his career was celebrated during a retrospective of his work at the 1855 World's Fair. He died in 1863 after receiving the insignia of Grand Officer of the Legion of Honor. A prolific painter, praised and reviled by critics, Horace Vernet did not leave his contemporaries indifferent.
The exhibition will showcase the painter's ease of style and the richness of his favorite subjects, revealing his love of horses and hunting, his attachment to the Napoleonic epic and feats of arms, his taste for Romantic literature and Lord Byron, and for the depiction of his family origins. A complete painter, Horace Vernet excelled in all genres. More than forty years after the last exhibition devoted to Vernet, this retrospective of around 200 works will be an opportunity to discover many previously unseen masterpieces, accompanied by sketches and drawings that demonstrate the artist's working method.