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Portrait of Carle Vernet
ArtistRobert Lefèvre
Year1804
TypeOil on canvas, portrait painting
Dimensions129.5 cm × 97.5 cm (51.0 in × 38.4 in)
LocationLouvre, Paris

Portrait of Carle Vernet is an 1804 portrait painting by the French artist Robert Lefèvre depicting his fellow painter Carle Vernet.

Carle Vernet came from a family of artists. He was the the son of the famous marine painter Claude-Joseph Vernet. His own son Horace Vernet was a noted painter of the nineteenth century. Lefèvre was a noted portraitist during the Napoleonic and Restoration eras.

The painting was exhibited at the Salon of 1804. It is now in the collection of the Louvre in Paris.

References

  1. Halliday p.161-62
  2. French Painting 1774-1830, the Age of Revolution. Wayne State University Press, 1975. p.529
  3. Bordes p.23
  4. Palmer p.139
  5. https://pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/joconde/000PE001827
  6. https://collections.louvre.fr/ark:/53355/cl010059913

Bibliography

  • Bordes, Phillipe. Portraiture in Paris Around 1800: Cooper Penrose by Jacques-Louis David. Timken Museum of Art, 2003.
  • Halliday, Anthony. Facing the Public: Portraiture in the Aftermath of the French Revolution. Manchester University Press, 2000.
  • Harkett, Daniel & Hornstein, Katie (ed.) Horace Vernet and the Thresholds of Nineteenth-Century Visual Culture. Dartmouth College Press, 2017.
  • Palmer, Allison Lee. Historical Dictionary of Neoclassical Art and Architecture. Scarecrow Press, 2011.
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