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Daughter of Jairus (1689), formerly in the Louvre; St. Maurice and Companions, Angers Museum; St. Bathilda sold to the Mayor of Archambault Palace (1700), Feast in Olympus (1709), Bacchus consigned to the Nymphs, Bacchus crowning Ariadne (attributed), Orléans Museum; Jurisprudence (allegory), Renne Museum; Immaculate Conception (fresco), San Canziano, Padua; Birth of the Virgin, Presentation of the Virgin, St. Ann's, ib.; Nativity, Presentation of the Virgin, Santa Clara, ib.; Scourging of Christ, The Paradise (ceiling), San Gaetano, ib.; Christ on Mount of Olives, San Leonardo, ib.; Christ on the Cross healing a Wound of St. Pellegrino Lariosi, Servites, ib.; Birth of the Virgin (1720), Nativity (1722), Church of Torresino, ib.; Magdalen (2), S. Maria de' Miracoli, Rome.—Bellier, ii. 652; Biog. univ., xliii. 190.
VERNET, (ANTOINE) CHARLES
(HORACE), called
Carle, born at Bordeaux,
Aug. 14,
1758, died in Paris,
Nov. 27, 1836.
History and animal
painter, son
and pupil of Joseph
Vernet and pupil
of Lépicié; won
second prize in
1779, for his Abigail bearing Presents to
David, and first prize in 1782, for his Prodigal
Son. In Italy he became a prey to
melancholy and wished to become a monk,
but being called back to France, resumed
the brush and painted the Triumph of Paulus
Æmilius (1789), in which he broke with tradition
and represented horses as he saw
them. Under the Directory he painted military
scenes; accompanied the First Consul
to Italy and painted the Battle of Marengo
(1804), and the Morning of Austerlitz (1808),
both in the Versailles Museum; and under
the Restoration produced hunting scenes,
genre pictures, and landscapes. Member
of Academy, 1789; member of Institute,
1809; L. of Honour, 1808; Officer, 1831;
Order of St. Michael, 1827. Works: Chariot
Races at Funeral of Patroclus (1793);
Conqueror in the Chariot Races returning
Home (1800); Bombardment of Madrid
(1810), Versailles Museum; Battle of Rivoli
(1810); Exercises at Franconi; Review in
the Place du Carrousel; Imperial Hunt
(1812); Portrait of the Duc d'Angoulême,
Louis XVIII. hunting at Rambouillet (1818);
Stag Hunt of Duc de Berry at Sèvres, Delivery
of Vienna by Sobieski (1819); Duc
d'Enghien's Dog (1821); Capture of Pampeluna
(1824), Versailles Museum; Deer
Hunt in Woods of Meudon (1827), Louvre;
Greek Horseman fighting a Lion, Amiens
Museum; Cossacks in Bivouac, Neufchatel
Museum.—Bellier, ii. 656; Ch. Blanc,
École française, iii.; Durande, Joseph,
Carle et Horace Vernet (Paris, 1865); Jal,
1256; Journal des Artistes (1836), xx. 378;
Larousse,—399; Lemonnier, Notes biog.
sur Carle et Horace V. (Paris, 1864); Meyer,
Gesch, 137;
Nagler, xx.
137; Quatremère
de Quincy, Notice hist. sur la vie,
etc. (Paris, 1837).
VERNET, (CLAUDE) JOSEPH, born at
Avignon, Aug. 14,
1712, died in Paris,
Dec. 23, 1789.
French school;
marine painter, son
and pupil of Antoine
Vernet (1689-1753,
decorative
painter), and pupil
of Adrien Manglard;
went to Rome
in 1732 and studied with Fergioni, Panini,
and Solimena. He became the first marine
painter in Europe, and was patronized by
many courts. After an absence of twenty
years he returned to Paris in 1753, became
a member of the Academy the same year,
and a councillor in 1766. Commissioned
by the King to paint all the seaports of