ANTOINE-CHARLES-HORACE VERNET, CALLED CARLE VERNET (BORDEAUX 1758-1836 PARIS)

ANTOINE-CHARLES-HORACE VERNET, CALLED CARLE VERNET (BORDEAUX 1758-1836 PARIS) A carthorse being yoked signed 'C. Vernet' in grey ink (lower left) Pen and grey ink and grey wash, with touches of watercolour, over an underdrawing in pencil. Laid down. 26 x 32.2 cm PROVENANCE: Anonymous sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 30 October 2000, lot 82. P. & D. Colnaghi, London, in 2001 Private collection, New York. LITERATURE: London, Jean-Luc Baroni Ltd. / Colnaghi, Old Master and 19th Century Drawings: A selection from our current stock, 2001-2002, no.43. EXHIBITED: London, Colnaghi, Old Master and 19th Century Drawings: A selection from our current stock, 2001-2002, no.43. The third son of the landscape painter Claude-Joseph Vernet, Carle Vernet was born into an artistic dynasty. A winner of the Prix de Rome in 1782, he spent only a few months in Italy between 1782 and 1783 before having to return to France. He was, however, to use motifs drawn from his Roman experiences throughout his later career. In his lifetime, Carle Vernet was an important and successful painter. In the early 19th century he turned his attention to equestrian subjects, particularly scenes of hunting and racing, working almost exclusively in this genre from around 1820 onwards. An accomplished and energetic draughtsman, Carle Vernet also made a particular speciality of costume studies, often bordering on caricature, which captured the fashionable manners of the day. Vernet is perhaps best-known today for his engravings and lithographs, such as the series of a hundred colour aquatints of street vendors and hawkers, entitled Cris de Paris, which first appeared in 1816.Click here to share: