Back in July , our spot onHorace Vernetmentioned that , because his father and grandfather had apartments in the Louvre , Horace love the rarefied perquisite of being behave in the Louvre . Today is the natal day of both his Father-God , Carle Vernet , and that gramps , Joseph Vernet . ( Joseph was conduct in 1714 ; his son was born exactly 44 twelvemonth subsequently . ) It only makes sense , then , that we pay today ’s post to Joseph and Carle Vernet .
“The Shipwreck,“ Claude-Joseph (Joseph) Vernet
TheNational Gallerylikens Claude - Joseph Vernet ’s " The Shipwreck" to a movie , " in full Technicolor and stereo sound . “ Vernet prided himself on painting an full tantrum , remarking once , " Others may know better how to paint the sky , the earth , the ocean ; no one have it off better than I how to paint a picture . “ prefer to work from nature , Vernet was screw to be on the beach in any weather , ask boatman to take him out to sea . purportedly , he once evenhad himself bound to a ship ’s mast during a tempest so that he could experience a violent storm at ocean . ( His grandson’spainting of the eventperpetuates the fib . ) Denis Diderot believed Joseph Vernet had " stolen Nature ’s secret ; whatever she produces , Vernet can vivify . “
Thanks to Vernet ’s inscription to his craft , he was the most famed and successful nautical painter of his mean solar day . He even receivedat least two 12 commissions from the king himself , Louis XV . Today , in Vernet ’s hometown of Avignon , there is a Rue Joseph Vernet to honor the artist .
“Equestrian Portrait of Emperor Napoleon I,“ Antoine-Charles (Carle) Vernet
Carle Vernet began analyze fine art at long time 11 and won the Prix de Rome at age 24 . His stay in Rome end prematurely , though , when his father recall him to France to preclude him from entering a monastery . Apparently , he had undergo a " mystic experience . “During the Revolution , his babe was guillotinedand , while many source state the disaster was n’t reflect in his artwork , some believe his style changed radically after her last . Carle himself populate to be 78 ; supposedly , he was even see " racing as if he were a sprightly unseasoned man" just solar day before his death . Despite being well - regarded in his own sentence , this lively creative person is alas acknowledge today mostly as an aside in the lives of his Church Father and his son .
