Carle Vernet

Carle Vernet
Robert Lefèvre, Public domain

(1758–1836) fransk målare

Carle Vernet (France, 1758–1836) is listed in the catalogue as a painter and a printmaker. By year of birth, Carle Vernet belongs to the chapter ‘Neoclassicism’ in this site’s history of art.

Carle Vernet was born in Bordeaux and died in Paris. The teachers included Joseph Vernet and Nicolas Bernard Lépicié. Carle Vernet became a member of Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture and Académie des beaux-arts. The awards include Prix de Rome and Officer of the Legion of Honour. The students included Théodore Géricault.

The works belong mainly to the genre history painting. The catalogue has 29 works by Carle Vernet with free images. The dated works span the years 1750–1850. Works by Carle Vernet are held by several collections, among them Prints in the National Gallery of Art, Musea Brugge, drawings in the National Gallery of Art, and Metropolitan Museum of Art. Wikidata links one work to a movement covered in the chapter ‘Realism’.

Contemporary artists in the same chapter include Pierre Cartellier, Shin Yun-bok, François Watteau, Pierre Paul Prud'hon, and Fyodor Matveyev.