Portraits

Portraits is   an original pencil drawing on paper by Horace Vernet  realized in the mid-19th Century.

Very good conditions. Image dimensions: 22 x 17.5 cm. Includes passpartout: 65 x 50 cm.

Monogram of the artist in pencil on the lower left and on the lower right.

The artwork represents a male figure on the left, and a men head on the right.

Émile Jean-Horace Vernet (30 June 1789 – 17 January 1863), also known as Horace Vernet, was the son of Antoine-Charles-Horace (known as 'Carle') Vernet and the grandson of Claude-Joseph Vernet, one of the leading French landscape painters of his period. He exhibited at the Salon from 1812. He was one of the most prolific French military painters, specializing in scenes of the Napoleonic era. He remained an ardent Bonapartist, and his most important work was the huge Gallery of Battles at Versailles, painted for Louis Philippe. A portrait of Napoleon and four battlepieces by him are at the National Gallery, London. He also depicted animals and Oriental subjects. From 1828 to 1835, he was Director of the French Academy in Rome.