Emile-Jean-Horace Vernet
A gentleman hunting with his dog in a landscape
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December 16, 03:02 PM GMT
Estimate
6,000 - 8,000 GBP
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Emile-Jean-Horace Vernet
Paris 1789 - 1863
A gentleman hunting with his dog in a landscape
oil on canvas
unframed: 61.3 x 50.4 cm.; 24⅛ X 19⅞ in.;
framed: 80.5 x 68.4 cm.; 31¾ x 27 in.
Private collection, France.
Emile Jean-Horace Vernet was the grandson of leading French landscape painter, Claude-Joseph Vernet (1714–1789). Vernet enjoyed great success during his lifetime, receiving important commissions from esteemed patrons, most notably Louis-Philippe, duc d'Orléans, later King of France. During the 1820s, Vernet was made an officier of the Légion d'honneur and a member of the Institut de France, and following his success at the Paris Salon in 1826 and 1827, he was appointed Director of the French Academy in Rome, a position he held until 1835.