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Updated: May 31, 2025
Among the chefs d'oeuvres of art which perished in the flames were the fine works of Mignard above all, the magnificent Galerie d'Apollon the paintings of LeMoyne, Nacret, Leloir, the marines of Joseph Vernet and innumerable objects of art which had been gathered together for the embellishment of Saint Cloud by the later monarchs.
And probably they will remain so; for though there are among them lovely valleys and of all such the valley of Vernet is perhaps the most lovely they cannot compete with the mountain scenery of other tourists-loved regions in Europe.
With whatever faults he may possess, I doubt if there be any other man that can do so much as Horace Vernet; many may be found who may excel him in the separate objects which he must introduce in a general historical subject, as a landscape, an architectural building, a ship, a horse, etc., might be better executed by such artists as have exclusively studied any one of those subjects, but I do not think there is any painter now living who could produce the ensemble so well, and manage to give the effect to the composition in the same masterly style as Horace Vernet.
To-day's display included a series of scenes of gallantry by Boilly, treated in his graceful, rather stiff way, Leçons d'amour conjugal, Douces résistances and the like, which scandalized the Jacobins and which the rigid moralists denounced to the Society of Arts, Debucourt's Promenade publique, with a dandy in canary-coloured breeches lounging on three chairs, a group of horses by the young Carle Vernet, pictures of air balloons, the Bain de Virginie and figures after the antique.
I think that no one has done this as yet; certainly not so much in detail. On his return from Egypt the Emperor was very thin and sallow, his skin was copper-colored, his eyes sunken, and his figure, though perfect, also very thin. The likeness is excellent in the portrait which Horace Vernet drew in his picture called "A Review of the First Consul on the Place du Carrousel."
Vernet proved to be a jolly kind of person, intensely interested in oil and oil prospects, and evidently completely satisfied with his purchase. "Here's the young man I have to thank," he commented, shaking hands with Bob.
If Horace Vernet were named director of the Academy, neither his name nor his office would open to him certain houses where he was received as a friend previously to 1830. And why? Because Horace Vernet was one of the public men of the Revolution of July.
On the sixth he went out of the hotel at four o'clock in the afternoon, and has never been seen or heard of since." "And that was a month ago, mademoiselle?" I remarked, surprised at her story. "Nearly," was her answer. "Accompanied by Madame Vernet, I went to see M'sieur Lepine, the Prefect of Police of Paris, and gave him all the information and a photograph of my father.
Though Vernet rose to great distinction, he was never fully appreciated till long after his decease. At the present day, he is placed in the first rank of marine painters, not only by his own countrymen, but by every other nation. He himself pronounced judgment on his own merits, the justness of which, posterity has sanctioned. The sentence deserves to be preserved, for it is great.
She was a great patroness of arts and her rooms were decorated with pictures by Vanloo, Greuze, Vernet, Robert, etc. She and her salon became, in time, the acknowledged judge and dictator of matters literary and artistic. Whenever a financier wished to purchase a certain work of art, it was taken to her Monday dinner, where the artists determined its artistic value and fixed the price.
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