Portrait of Carle Vernet is an 1804 portrait painting by the French artist Robert Lefèvre depicting his fellow painter Carle Vernet.Halliday p.161-62French Painting 1774–1830, the Age of Revolution. Wayne State University Press, 1975. p.529Bordes p.23
Carle Vernet came from a family of artists. He was the son of the famous marine painter Claude-Joseph Vernet. His own son Horace Vernet was a noted painter of the nineteenth century. Lefèvre was a noted portraitist during the Napoleonic and Restoration eras.Palmer p.139
The painting was exhibited at the Salon of 1804. It is now in the collection of the Louvre in Paris.
References
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