Vernet, HoraceFrankrijk, 1789–1863Un mameluck
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Parijs, Frankrijk
Het hoort bij de collectie, maar is momenteel niet tentoongesteld.
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- Het museum
Gegevens
- Inventarisnummer
- RF 2961
In de catalogus
Bronnen
- Louvre
- Afbeelding: Louvre — © 2020 GrandPalaisRmn (musée du Louvre) / Adrien Didierjean
Intussen, in het leven van Vernet, Horace
Het hele leven1812
Salon debut with “The Taking of an Entrenched Camp”
Makes his debut at the Paris Salon with “The Taking of an Entrenched Camp near Glatz”, commissioned by Jérôme Bonaparte, Napoleon's younger brother and King of Westphalia; impressed by the artist's talent, Jérôme also commissioned an equestrian portrait of himself. By other accounts, Vernet was only twenty when the picture was shown.
1814
Among the civilian defenders of Paris
Becomes one of the civilian defenders of Paris against the approaching armies of the Allies; he would later depict the episode in “The Barrière de Clichy” (1820).
1814
Daughter born: Louise Vernet
December 1814
Made a knight of the Legion of Honour
In December 1814, the year of the defence of Paris, he becomes a knight (chevalier) of the Legion of Honour.
