Antoine Charles Horace Vernet
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Antoine Charles Horace Vernet (14 August 1758 at Bordeaux – 17 November 1835 in Paris) was a French painter, the youngest child of Claude Joseph Vernet, and the father of Horace Vernet.
He was a pupil of Michael Nicolas-Bernard Lepicie. Strangely, after winning the grand prix (1782), his father had to recall him to France to prevent him from entering a monastery.
In his Triumph of Paulus Aemilius, he broke with tradition and drew the horse with the forms he had learnt from nature in stables and riding-schools. His hunting-pieces, races, landscapes, and work as a lithographer were also very popular.
Carle's sister was executed by the guillotine during the Revolution. When he again began to produce, his style had changed radically. His drawings of Napoleon's Italian campaign won acclaim as did the Battle of Marengo, and for his Morning of Austerlitz. Napoleon awarded him the Legion of Honour. Louis XVIII of France awarded him the Order of St. Michael.
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