id: 149029 accession number: 1977.171 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1977.171 updated: 2024-03-26 01:59:40.966000 Self-Portrait in Rome, 1832. Horace Vernet (French, 1789–1863). Oil on fabric; framed: 78.5 x 67 x 8 cm (30 7/8 x 26 3/8 x 3 1/8 in.); unframed: 65 x 54.2 cm (25 9/16 x 21 5/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund 1977.171 title: Self-Portrait in Rome title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1832 creation date earliest: 1832 creation date latest: 1832 current location: 219 19th Century European creditline: Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund copyright: --- culture: France, 19th century technique: oil on fabric department: Modern European Painting and Sculpture collection: Mod Euro - Painting 1800-1960 type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Horace Vernet (French, 1789–1863) - artist Born into a family of artists, Horace Vernet's profession seems to have been inevitable. His father, Carle Vernet (1758-1836), was a painter and lithographer; his grandfathers were Joseph Vernet (1714-1789) and Jean-Michel Moreau the younger (1741-1814), and his uncle the architect Jean-François Chalgrin (1739-1811). While his earliest lessons were given by his father, Vernet also worked in the studio of François-André Vincent (1746-1814) until 1810. The following year Vernet created caricatures for the Journal des dames et des modes, an activity he would continue until 1815. He was first accepted at the Salon in 1812, and his talent so impressed Jérôme Bonaparte that he commissioned an equestrian portrait from Vernet. Throughout his life, he would receive many official commissions for contemporary history paintings. Vernet kept a busy studio that, during the first years of the Restoration, was used as a meeting place for liberals. When some of his paintings were rejected from the 1822 Salon because of their supposed antiroyalist subject matter, Vernet displayed them at his studio, attracting large crowds. Despite the Salon rejection, Vernet was elected to the Institut de France in 1826 and became the director of the Académie de France in Rome two years later, a position he would occupy until 1835. After his return to Paris, Vernet became a professor at the École des Beaux-Arts. --- measurements: Framed: 78.5 x 67 x 8 cm (30 7/8 x 26 3/8 x 3 1/8 in.); Unframed: 65 x 54.2 cm (25 9/16 x 21 5/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: Signed lower right: H Vernet 1832 Rome translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: The Artist and the Studio in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries opening date: 1978-04-05T05:00:00 The Artist and the Studio in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 5-August 13, 1978). title: Portraiture: The Image of the Individual opening date: 1983-11-22T05:00:00 Portraiture: The Image of the Individual. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 22, 1983-January 22, 1984). title: Rococo, Revolution, Restoration opening date: 1989-07-11T04:00:00 Rococo, Revolution, Restoration. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 11-September 24, 1989). title: Maestá di Roma, da Napoleon all'Unita d'Italia: Da Ingres à Degas. Les artistes français à Rome opening date: 2003-03-05T00:00:00 Maestá di Roma, da Napoleon all'Unita d'Italia: Da Ingres à Degas. Les artistes français à Rome. Dahesh Museum of Art, New York, NY (September 9-November 9, 2003). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': "Paris, Hôtel de M. Jean Charpentier. L'art et la vie romantiques (1923), no. 451, Son portrait par lui-même, au Vicomte de Breteuil.", 'opening_date': '1923-01-01T00:00:00'} --- PROVENANCE Vicomte de Breteuil, Paris, by 1923. date: footnotes: citations: Paris sale, Pavillon Gabriel, 17 June 1977 (lot 46, repr.), Autoportrait, to Frederick Mont, New York. date: footnotes: citations: Purchased by the CMA in 1977. date: footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Zakon, Ronnie L. The Artist and the Studio in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. page number: no. 4, 13, 17 (repr.) url: "La Chronique des Arts." Gazette des Beaux-Arts 93 (April 1979): 1-84. page number: Reproduced: P. 45, no. 224 url: Brunel, Georges. Horace Vernet (1789-1863): [exposition] Académie de France à Rome, École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, mars-juillet 1980. Roma: De Luca, 1980. page number: Mentioned: P. 83 url: Talbot, William S. "Cogniet and Vernet at the Villa Medici." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 67, no. 5 (1980): 135-49. page number: Reproduced: p. 141-42; Mentioned: p. 135-49 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25159675 Hauptman, William. “Gleyre, Vernet, and the Revenge of ‘Les Brigands Romains.’” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 68, no. 1 (January 1981): 17–34. page number: Mentioned: P. 27; Reproduced: P. 30, fig. 20 url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25159707 Chong, Alan. European & American Painting in the Cleveland Museum of Art: A Summary Catalogue. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1993. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 250 url: Musée du Louvre, Anne de Margerie, and Yolande Manzano. Nouvelles Acquisitions du Département des Peintures (1991-1995). Paris: Editions de la Réunion des Musées Nationaux, 1996. page number: Mentioned: P. 200; Reproduced: P. 203 url: Pomarede, Vincent. "Le 'Portrait de Louise Vernet, Fille de L'Artiste,' Peint par Horace Vernet (1789-1863) entre par dation au department des Peintures." La Revue des Arts 46, no. 3 (June 1996): 14-15. page number: Mentioned: P. 14 url: d' Argencourt, Louise, and Roger Diederen. Catalogue of Paintings. Pt. 4. European Paintings of the 19th century. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1974. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 616-618, no. 216 url: Bonfait, Olivier, and Sébastien Allard. Maestà di Roma: da Napoleone all'unità d'Italia. [Milan]: Electa, 2003. page number: exh. cat. no. 53, p. 222. url: Le Nouëne, Patrick. "Guillaume Bodinier, Le Retour en Italie, Entre le Genre et le Paysage 1829-1848." Patrick Le Nouene, ed., 148-203. In Guillaume Bodinier, 1795-1872: Un Peintre Angevin en Italie. Angers: Expressions Contemporaines, 2011. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 150, ill. 117 url: Harkett, Daniel, and Katie Hornstein. Horace Vernet and the Thresholds of Nineteenth-Century Visual Culture. Hanover, NH : Dartmouth College Press, 2017. page number: Reproduced: pl. 15 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1977.171/1977.171_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1977.171/1977.171_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1977.171/1977.171_full.tif