DOI Heft:
No. 63 (June, 1898)
DOI Artikel:Dayot, Armand: The three Vernets: Joseph, Carle, Horace
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21969#0048
The Three Vernets
About the year 1825 lithography came to
the fore; and this offered Vernet a rapid
medium for the production of his ideas. He
was one of the first artists to realise the full
possibilities of lithography, and in the course
of a few years he turned out a prodigious
number of plates—bits of Parisian life, mili-
tary and sporting scenes, and political carica-
tures.
Carle Vernet was carried off in 1835 by an
attack of inflammation of the lungs. Only a
few days before he had been cantering in the
Bois de Boulogne on a spirited thoroughbred.
The last art work he did in his busy career
was a sketch for a large canvas, entitled Louis
XVIII. allant rendre grace a Dieu dans
I’Eglise Notre-Dame.
The story goes that just before he died he
uttered these touching words : “ It’s curious
how like I am to the Grand Dauphin : son of
a king, sire of a king—but never king myself.”
And there is no small degree of truth in this
supreme self-criticism.
Of the three Vernets Horace was certainly
“ l’ancien regime ”
FROM A PEN-AND-INK SKETCH BY CARLE VERNET
(Never previously published)
battle painting, as to his inimitable power of
depicting the horse in all the infinite variety
of its movements, and to his fine gift for hit-
ting off the follies of his day.
During the Imperial eraVernet executed sev-
eral large water-colours, which, taken together,
must be considered as one of his most remark-
able achievements. They almost all deal with
hunting scenes in the forest of Fontainebleau,
and the Emperor figures in each one of them.
Carle Vernet’s gifts as a caricaturist had
fullest play in 1815, during the stay of the
Allied Armies in Paris. He delighted in
ridiculing “ our good friends the enemy,” as
Beranger has it; and produced a series of
most amusing water-colours, which were en-
graved with infinite art by Debucourt. The
best known of them are Les Adieux d’un
Russe d une Parisienne ; Le Cosaque galant ;
Officiers Prussiens ; Militaires Anglais; and
Tambours Russes.
About the same date appeared his laugh-
able series, Les Cris de Paris, of which one of
the best plates is undoubtedly La Marchande
de saucisses.
PEN-AND-INK SKETCH BY CARLE VERNET
(Never previozisly published)
34
About the year 1825 lithography came to
the fore; and this offered Vernet a rapid
medium for the production of his ideas. He
was one of the first artists to realise the full
possibilities of lithography, and in the course
of a few years he turned out a prodigious
number of plates—bits of Parisian life, mili-
tary and sporting scenes, and political carica-
tures.
Carle Vernet was carried off in 1835 by an
attack of inflammation of the lungs. Only a
few days before he had been cantering in the
Bois de Boulogne on a spirited thoroughbred.
The last art work he did in his busy career
was a sketch for a large canvas, entitled Louis
XVIII. allant rendre grace a Dieu dans
I’Eglise Notre-Dame.
The story goes that just before he died he
uttered these touching words : “ It’s curious
how like I am to the Grand Dauphin : son of
a king, sire of a king—but never king myself.”
And there is no small degree of truth in this
supreme self-criticism.
Of the three Vernets Horace was certainly
“ l’ancien regime ”
FROM A PEN-AND-INK SKETCH BY CARLE VERNET
(Never previously published)
battle painting, as to his inimitable power of
depicting the horse in all the infinite variety
of its movements, and to his fine gift for hit-
ting off the follies of his day.
During the Imperial eraVernet executed sev-
eral large water-colours, which, taken together,
must be considered as one of his most remark-
able achievements. They almost all deal with
hunting scenes in the forest of Fontainebleau,
and the Emperor figures in each one of them.
Carle Vernet’s gifts as a caricaturist had
fullest play in 1815, during the stay of the
Allied Armies in Paris. He delighted in
ridiculing “ our good friends the enemy,” as
Beranger has it; and produced a series of
most amusing water-colours, which were en-
graved with infinite art by Debucourt. The
best known of them are Les Adieux d’un
Russe d une Parisienne ; Le Cosaque galant ;
Officiers Prussiens ; Militaires Anglais; and
Tambours Russes.
About the same date appeared his laugh-
able series, Les Cris de Paris, of which one of
the best plates is undoubtedly La Marchande
de saucisses.
PEN-AND-INK SKETCH BY CARLE VERNET
(Never previozisly published)
34