id: 162736 accession number: 2003.277 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/2003.277 updated: 2024-03-26 02:00:49.415000 The Man-Servant of Limier Rising from Bed, c. 1818. Horace Vernet (French, 1789–1863). Lithograph in black and grayon blue chine; sheet: 25.4 x 32.4 cm (10 x 12 3/4 in.); image: 15 x 19.4 cm (5 7/8 x 7 5/8 in.); tint: 17.3 x 21.5 cm (6 13/16 x 8 7/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of Nicholas J. Velloney 2003.277 title: The Man-Servant of Limier Rising from Bed title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1818 creation date earliest: 1813 creation date latest: 1823 current location: creditline: Bequest of Nicholas J. Velloney copyright: --- culture: France, 19th century technique: lithograph in black and grayon blue chine department: Prints collection: PR - Lithograph type: Print find spot: catalogue raisonne: Beraldi vol. XII p. 218 no. 111 --- 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: Sheet: 25.4 x 32.4 cm (10 x 12 3/4 in.); Image: 15 x 19.4 cm (5 7/8 x 7 5/8 in.); tint: 17.3 x 21.5 cm (6 13/16 x 8 7/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: description: cream(3) wove paper watermarks: inscriptions: inscription: signed, lower left, in stone: H. Vernet translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE Nicholas J. Velloney date: footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2003.277/2003.277_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2003.277/2003.277_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2003.277/2003.277_full.tif