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#0049
The Three Vernets
PORTRAIT SKETCH OF SIR WALTER SCOTT
BY HORACE VERNET
in the competition for the Prix de l’Ecole de Rome,
which did not prevent him, nevertheless, from ulti-
mately becoming director of that self-same school!
His true nature was not revealed till 1816, up
to which time he had done nothing more than
imitate the work he had seen. But thenceforward
his own personality made itself gradually more and
more apparent. The year 1822 marks a decisive
stage in his artistic career. It was in this year that
Vernet, who, as a true Bonapartist, had never
become truly reconciled to the Bourbon regime,
submitted for acceptance at the Salon several
episodes in the wars of the Empire. Louis XVIII.,
knowing full well the instability of his newly-erected
throne, and dreading anything which might threaten
its security, ordered the doors of the Salon to be
closed against these dangerous commemorative
pictures.
But Horace Vernet was too shrewd to let slip
this providential opportunity, which offered the
means of arousing a popular agitation over his
name. He lost no time in opening a private exhi-
bition of the prohibited pictures in his own studio.
(Never previously published)
the most popular; and this
arises solely from the fact that he
was par excellence the Soldier’s
Painter. Nothing appeals to
the masses like battle-pictures,
which act on the popular imagi-
nation just as the regiment does,
passing along the street, with
drums and bugles playing. The
whole secret of Horace Vernet’s
immense popularity lies in the
extraordinary fecundity of his
epic scenes.
Horace was born at the
Louvre on the 30th of June
1789. His precocity was quite
remarkable. Some of his draw-
ings, produced when he was
only ten years old, gave evidence
even then of future genius. But
as a boy he would follow no
guide save his own spontaneous
fancy, and despite the remon-
strances of Carle Vernet and
Vincent, his earliest teachers,
showed no perseverance in his
studies. Thus it was he failed
t . /
C y*£* *^
/
o-ix "wo' q/.-V-A > '-'W -- •''"2AC
/y c
PORTRAIT SKETCH OF CHATEAUBRIAND BY HORACE VERNET
(Never previously published)
35
PORTRAIT SKETCH OF SIR WALTER SCOTT
BY HORACE VERNET
in the competition for the Prix de l’Ecole de Rome,
which did not prevent him, nevertheless, from ulti-
mately becoming director of that self-same school!
His true nature was not revealed till 1816, up
to which time he had done nothing more than
imitate the work he had seen. But thenceforward
his own personality made itself gradually more and
more apparent. The year 1822 marks a decisive
stage in his artistic career. It was in this year that
Vernet, who, as a true Bonapartist, had never
become truly reconciled to the Bourbon regime,
submitted for acceptance at the Salon several
episodes in the wars of the Empire. Louis XVIII.,
knowing full well the instability of his newly-erected
throne, and dreading anything which might threaten
its security, ordered the doors of the Salon to be
closed against these dangerous commemorative
pictures.
But Horace Vernet was too shrewd to let slip
this providential opportunity, which offered the
means of arousing a popular agitation over his
name. He lost no time in opening a private exhi-
bition of the prohibited pictures in his own studio.
(Never previously published)
the most popular; and this
arises solely from the fact that he
was par excellence the Soldier’s
Painter. Nothing appeals to
the masses like battle-pictures,
which act on the popular imagi-
nation just as the regiment does,
passing along the street, with
drums and bugles playing. The
whole secret of Horace Vernet’s
immense popularity lies in the
extraordinary fecundity of his
epic scenes.
Horace was born at the
Louvre on the 30th of June
1789. His precocity was quite
remarkable. Some of his draw-
ings, produced when he was
only ten years old, gave evidence
even then of future genius. But
as a boy he would follow no
guide save his own spontaneous
fancy, and despite the remon-
strances of Carle Vernet and
Vincent, his earliest teachers,
showed no perseverance in his
studies. Thus it was he failed
t . /
C y*£* *^
/
o-ix "wo' q/.-V-A > '-'W -- •''"2AC
/y c
PORTRAIT SKETCH OF CHATEAUBRIAND BY HORACE VERNET
(Never previously published)
35