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VERNET , the name of three eminent See also:French painters.
I. See also:CLAUDE See also:JOSEPH VERNET (1714-1789), who was See also:born at See also:Avignon on the 14th of See also:August 1714, when only fourteen years of See also:age aided his See also:father, a skilful decorative painter, in the most important parts of his See also:work. But the panels of See also:sedan chairs could not satisfy his ambition, and he started for See also:Rome. The sight of the See also:sea at See also:Marseilles and his voyage thence to Civita Vecchia made a deep impression on him, and immediately after his arrival he entered the studio of a marine painter, Bernardino Fergioni. Slowly but surely Claude Joseph made his way and attracted See also:notice. With a certain conventionality in See also:design, proper to his See also:day, he allied the results of See also:constant and honest observation of natural effects of See also:atmosphere, which he rendered with unusual pictorial See also:art. Perhaps no painter of landscapes or sea-pieces has ever made the human figure so completely apart of the See also:scene depicted or so important a See also:factor in his design. " Others may know better," he said, with just See also:pride, " how to paint the See also:sky, the See also:earth, the ocean; no one knows better than I how to paint a picture." For twenty years Vernet lived on in Rome, producing views of seaports, storms, calms, See also:- MOON (a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Mond, Du. maan, Dan. maane, &c., and cognate with such Indo-Germanic forms as Gr. µlip, Sans. ma's, Irish mi, &c.; Lat. uses luna, i.e. lucna, the shining one, lucere, to shine, for the moon, but preserves the word i
- MOON, SIR RICHARD, 1ST BARONET (1814-1899)
moon-See also:lights, &c., when he was recalled (1753) to See also:Paris, and executed, by royal command, the remarkable See also:series of the seaports of See also:France (Louvre) by which he is best known. On his return he became a member of the See also:academy, but he had previously contributed to the exhibitions of 1746 and following years, and he continued to exhibit, with rare exceptions, down to the date of his See also:death, which took See also:place in his lodgings in the Louvre on the 3rd of See also:December 1789. Amongst the very numerous en-gravers of his See also:works may be specially cited Le Bas, See also:Cochin, Basan, Duret, Flipart and Le Veau in France, and in See also:England Vivares.
H. See also:ANTOINE See also:CHARLES See also:HORACE VERNET (1758-1835), Commonly called CARLE, the youngest See also:child of the above-named, was born at See also:Bordeaux in 1758, where his father was See also:painting the view from the See also:chateau of La Trompette (Louvre). He showed, at the age of five, an extraordinary See also:passion for See also:drawing horses, but went through the See also:regular academical course as a See also:- PUPIL (Lat. pupillus, orphan, minor, dim. of pupus, boy, allied to puer, from root pm- or peu-, to beget, cf. "pupa," Lat. for " doll," the name given to the stage intervening between the larval and imaginal stages in certain insects)
pupil of Lepicie. Strangely enough, on arriving in See also:Italy after carrying off the See also:grand prix (1782), he lost all ambition and See also:interest in his profession, so that his father had to recall him to France to prevent his entering a monastery. In Paris Carle Vernet became himself again, and distinguished himself at the See also:exhibition of 1791 by his " See also:Triumph of See also:Paulus See also:Aemilius," a work in which he See also:broke with reigning traditions in classical subjects and See also:drew the See also:horse with the forms he had learnt from nature in stables and See also:riding-See also:schools. But the Revolution drew on, and Carle Vernet's career for awhile seemed to end in the anguish of his See also:sister's death on the See also:scaffold. When he again began to produce, it was as the See also:man of another era: his drawings of the See also:Italian See also:campaign brought him fresh laurels; his vast See also:canvas, the " See also:Battle of See also:Marengo," obtained See also:great success; and for his " See also:Morning of See also:Austerlitz " See also:Napoleon bestowed on him the See also:Legion of See also:Honour. His See also:hunting-pieces, races, landscapes, and work as a lithographer (chiefly under the Restoration) had also a great See also:vogue. From See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
Louis XVIII. he received the See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order of St See also:Michael. In 1827 he accompanied his son Horace (see below) to Rome, and died in Paris on his return, on the 17th of See also:November 1835.
said himself, " from his window," and even in this work there was a See also:good See also:deal of affectation of the See also:impromptu.
See See also:Lagrange, Joseph Vernet et la peinture au X VIII' siecle (1861) ; C. See also:Blanc, See also:Les See also:Verne! (1845); A. Dayot, Les Vernet (1898).
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