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 and 1853, and Egypt, Syria, Palestine, and Turkey in 1839-40. Officer L. of Honour, 1825; Commander, 1842; Grand Officer, 1862; Medal of Honour, Paris Exhibition 1855. Vernet painted successfully military, oriental, and biblical scenes, but after 1836 he devoted himself chiefly to battle-pieces and pieces illustrative of Arab life in Algeria. With wonderful facility of invention and execution, he had little imagination or depth of feeling. He is nevertheless to be classed among the great French painters on account of the change which he wrought from pseudo-classicism to that observation and close study of nature which characterize the modern schools. Works: Taking of Intrenched Camp at Glatz (1812); Dog of the Regiment; Horse with the Trumpet (1814); Battle of Tolosa (1817), Versailles Museum; Massacre of Mamelukes (1819); Defence of Paris in 1814 (1820), Louvre; Battle of Jemappes, The Working Soldier, Soldier of Waterloo, Last Cartridge, Camoens saving his Manuscripts from Shipwreck, Scenes from Molière's Plays (5), Artist's Studio, Death of Poniatowski, Defence of Saragossa, Joseph Vernet bound to the Mast (1822); Review on Champ de Mars (1824), Versailles Museum; Mazeppa (1825), Vaucluse Museum; Mazeppa (1826), Avignon Museum; Last Hunt of Louis XVI. at Fontainebleau (1827); Julius II. directing the Building of the Vatican (ceiling in the Louvre); Bridge of Arcole; Escape of Lavalette, Edith searching for Body of Harold (1828); Magdalen Penitent (1828), Leipsic Museum; Pope Leo XII. carried to the Basilica of St. Peter (1829), Versailles Museum; Battles of Jemappes and Valmy, Brigands and Carabineers, Brigand Confessing, Hunting in the Pontine Marshes, Meeting of Raphael and Michelangelo, Arrest of the Princes by Order of Anne of Austria (1829); Judith and Holofernes (1830), Louvre; Campaign in France; Slave Market (1836), National Gallery, Berlin; Soldier as Nurse, Ravené Gallery, ib.; Portrait of the Emperor Nicholas, do. on Horseback, Capture of Warsaw (1842); The Carrousel in May, 1842, Capture of Wola (1844); Capture of the Smala of Abd-el-Kader (1844), Battle of Isly (1845); Capture of Rome (1851), Versailles Museum; Joseph sold by his Brethren, Return from Lion Hunt, Hunting wild Sheep in Morocco, Mass in Kabylia (1852); Equestrian Portrait of Napoleon III., Incident of Crimean War (1855); Battles of Bouvines, Fontenoy, Jena, Friedland, and Wagram (1836), Siege of Constantine (3, 1838, 1839), French Fleet forcing Entrance into the Tajo, Attack of Citadel of Antwerp (1840), Entry of French Army into Belgium in 1831 (1841), Occupation of Ancona in 1832, Taking of Bougie, do. of Fort Saint Jean d'Ulloa (1841), seven others, Versailles Museum; Expulsion of Hagar (1839), The Dead Ride fast, Nantes Museum; Portraits of Marshals Gouvion Saint Cyr (1824), Molitor (1833), Bosquet, Canrobert, Randon (1857), MacMahon, Versailles Museum; Marshal Vaillant, Dijon Museum; General Drouot, Nancy Museum. His works number about 800.—Art Journal (1863), 52; L'Artiste (1842), i. 357; (1854), xiv. 62; (1857), ii. 177; Les Beaux Arts, vi. 3, 4, & 5, Livr.; Bellier, ii. 657; Bertholon and Lhote, H. V. à Versailles, au Luxembourg et au Louvre (Paris, 1863); Beulé, Éloge de H. V. (Paris, 1863); Biog. univ., xliii. 208; Ch. Blanc, École française, iii.; Claretie, Peintres, etc. (1874), 65; La critique française, Feb. 15, 1863; Durande, as above; Étienne de Joux and Jay, Salon d'H. V. (Paris, 1822); Fine Arts Quarterly, ii. 126; Fourcault de Pavant, H. V. (Versailles, 1863); Goupil-Fesquet, Voyage en Orient fait avec H. V. (Paris, 1843); Hamerton, French Painters, 30; L'Illustration, Dec. 25, 1847; June 10, 1848; Sept. 1, 1849; Feb. 21, 1851; Jan. 24, 1863; Jal, 1257; Jordan (1885), ii. 231; Journal des Débats, Jan. 24, 1863; Larousse; Laurent, Légendes d'atelier (Paris, 1859); Loménie, Galerie des contemporains, H. V. (Paris, 1842); Meyer, Gesch., 188, 424; Mirecourt, Les Contemporains, H. V. (Paris, 1855-57); Moniteur, Jan. 23, 1863; Nou