id: 150087 accession number: 1980.291 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1980.291 updated: 2024-03-26 01:59:46.047000 Combat of a Greek and a Turk, after 1835. Imitator of Horace Vernet (French, 1789–1863). Oil on fabric; unframed: 75 x 55 cm (29 1/2 x 21 5/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of Noah L. Butkin 1980.291 title: Combat of a Greek and a Turk title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: after 1835 creation date earliest: 1835 creation date latest: 1845 current location: creditline: Bequest of Noah L. Butkin 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: Unframed: 75 x 55 cm (29 1/2 x 21 5/8 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: Signed lower right: Horace Vernet translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Year in Review: 1980 opening date: 1981-06-24T04:00:00 Year in Review: 1980. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (June 24-July 19, 1981). title: Animals as Romantic Icons in French Art opening date: 1986-04-06T04:00:00 Animals as Romantic Icons in French Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 6-July 27, 1986). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE Jan Milner, London. Shepherd Gallery, New York. Bought in February 1974 by Mr. and Mrs. Noah L. Butkin, Cleveland. Bequeathed to the CMA in 1980. date: footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Argencourt, Louise d', 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. 618-621, Vol. II, no. 217 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1980.291/1980.291_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1980.291/1980.291_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1980.291/1980.291_full.tif