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 Daughter of Jairus (1689), formerly in the Louvre; St. Maurice and Companions, Angers Museum; St. Bathilda sold to the Mayor of Archambault Palace (1700), Feast in Olympus (1709), Bacchus consigned to the Nymphs, Bacchus crowning Ariadne (attributed), Orléans Museum; Jurisprudence (allegory), Renne Museum; Immaculate Conception (fresco), San Canziano, Padua; Birth of the Virgin, Presentation of the Virgin, St. Ann's, ib.; Nativity, Presentation of the Virgin, Santa Clara, ib.; Scourging of Christ, The Paradise (ceiling), San Gaetano, ib.; Christ on Mount of Olives, San Leonardo, ib.; Christ on the Cross healing a Wound of St. Pellegrino Lariosi, Servites, ib.; Birth of the Virgin (1720), Nativity (1722), Church of Torresino, ib.; Magdalen (2), S. Maria de' Miracoli, Rome.—Bellier, ii. 652; Biog. univ., xliii. 190.

VERNET, (ANTOINE) CHARLES (HORACE), called Carle, born at Bordeaux, Aug. 14, 1758, died in Paris, Nov. 27, 1836. History and animal painter, son and pupil of Joseph Vernet and pupil of Lépicié; won second prize in 1779, for his Abigail bearing Presents to David, and first prize in 1782, for his Prodigal Son. In Italy he became a prey to melancholy and wished to become a monk, but being called back to France, resumed the brush and painted the Triumph of Paulus Æmilius (1789), in which he broke with tradition and represented horses as he saw them. Under the Directory he painted military scenes; accompanied the First Consul to Italy and painted the Battle of Marengo (1804), and the Morning of Austerlitz (1808), both in the Versailles Museum; and under the Restoration produced hunting scenes, genre pictures, and landscapes. Member of Academy, 1789; member of Institute, 1809; L. of Honour, 1808; Officer, 1831; Order of St. Michael, 1827. Works: Chariot Races at Funeral of Patroclus (1793); Conqueror in the Chariot Races returning Home (1800); Bombardment of Madrid (1810), Versailles Museum; Battle of Rivoli (1810); Exercises at Franconi; Review in the Place du Carrousel; Imperial Hunt (1812); Portrait of the Duc d'Angoulême, Louis XVIII. hunting at Rambouillet (1818); Stag Hunt of Duc de Berry at Sèvres, Delivery of Vienna by Sobieski (1819); Duc d'Enghien's Dog (1821); Capture of Pampeluna (1824), Versailles Museum; Deer Hunt in Woods of Meudon (1827), Louvre; Greek Horseman fighting a Lion, Amiens Museum; Cossacks in Bivouac, Neufchatel Museum.—Bellier, ii. 656; Ch. Blanc, École française, iii.; Durande, Joseph, Carle et Horace Vernet (Paris, 1865); Jal, 1256; Journal des Artistes (1836), xx. 378; Larousse,—399; Lemonnier, Notes biog. sur Carle et Horace V. (Paris, 1864); Meyer, Gesch, 137; Nagler, xx. 137; Quatremère de Quincy, Notice hist. sur la vie, etc. (Paris, 1837).

VERNET, (CLAUDE) JOSEPH, born at Avignon, Aug. 14, 1712, died in Paris, Dec. 23, 1789. French school; marine painter, son and pupil of Antoine Vernet (1689-1753, decorative painter), and pupil of Adrien Manglard; went to Rome in 1732 and studied with Fergioni, Panini, and Solimena. He became the first marine painter in Europe, and was patronized by many courts. After an absence of twenty years he returned to Paris in 1753, became a member of the Academy the same year, and a councillor in 1766. Commissioned by the King to paint all the seaports of