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Self-Portrait in Rome
Horace Vernet1832
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States
Vernet stands before the Villa Medici, seat of the French Academy in Rome, where he was director from 1829 to 1835. The palette, brushes, and maulstick on the stepladder hint at his talent for painting large canvases. The artist's sideward glance, disheveled hair, and burning cigarette lend him a romantic aura. The recipient of numerous commissions for military paintings, Vernet was patronized by Jérôme Bonaparte (the youngest brother of Napoleon) and later taught at the École des Beaux-Arts.
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- Title: Self-Portrait in Rome
- Creator: Horace Vernet (French, 1789–1863)
- Date Created: 1832
- Physical Dimensions: 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.)
- Provenance: Vicomte de Breteuil, Paris, by 1923., Paris sale, Pavillon Gabriel, 17 June 1977 (lot 46, repr.), Autoportrait, to Frederick Mont, New York., Purchased by the CMA in 1977.
- Type: Painting
- Rights: CC0
- External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/1977.171
- Medium: oil on fabric
- Inscriptions: Signed lower right: H Vernet 1832 Rome
- Department: Modern European Painting and Sculpture
- Culture: France, 19th century
- Credit Line: Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund
- Collection: Mod Euro - Painting 1800-1960
- Accession Number: 1977.171
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