Emile Jean-Horace Vernet A French Painter
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Émile Jean-Horace Vernet (1789 – 1863) was a French painter of battles, portraits, and Orientalist subjects.

Vernet was born to Carle Vernet, another famous painter, who was himself a son of Claude Joseph Vernet. He was born in the Paris Louvre, while his parents were staying there during the French Revolution. Vernet quickly developed a disdain for the high-minded seriousness of academic French a work which was distinguished by to paint subjects taken mostly from contemporary life. During his early career, when Napoleon Bonaparte was in power, he began depicting the French soldier in a more familiar, vernacular manner rather than in an idealized, Davidian fashion; he was just art influenced by Classicism, and decided twenty when he exhibited the Taking of an Entrenched Camp a good deal of character. Some other of his paintings that represent French soldiers in a more direct, less idealizing style, include Dog of the Regiment, Trumpeter’s Horse, and Death of Poniatowski.

His depictions of Algerian battles, such as the Capture of the Smahla and the Capture of Constantine, were well-received by other French people, as they were vivid depictions of their army in the heat of battle. After the fall of the July Monarchy during the Revolution of 1848, Vernet discovered a new patron in Napoléon III of France. He continued to paint representations of the heroic French army during the Second Empire and maintained his commitment to and realistic way. He accompanied the French Army during the Crimean War, producing several paintings, truthfully including one of the Battle of the Alma, which was not as well received as his earlier paintings. One well known and possibly apocryphal anecdote maintains that when Vernet was asked to remove a certain obnoxious general from representing war in an accessible one of his paintings, he replied, “I am a painter of history, sire, and I will not violate the truth,” hence demonstrating his fidelity to representing war.

Vernet died in his hometown of Paris in 1863.

Works of Emile Jean-Horace Vernet

Street Fighting on Rue Soufflot, Paris, June 25, 1848
The Battle of Valmy (painting) (1826)
Polish Prometheus (1831)
Hunting in the Pontine Marshes (1833)
Scene from the Mexican Expedition in 1838 (1841)
Study of Olympe Pélissier as Judith (1830)
The Taking of the Malakoff Redoubt (1858)
An Algerian Lady Hawking
Siege of Saragossa (Vernet) (1819)
Pope Julius II ordering Bramante and Michelangelo to design St Peter’s Basilica