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Self-Portrait in Rome

Self-Portrait in Rome

1832
(French, 1789–1863)
France, 19th century
oil on fabric
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.)
Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund 1977.171
Location: 219 19th Century European

Description

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.
  • 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.
  • Zakon, Ronnie L. The Artist and the Studio in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. no. 4, 13, 17 (repr.)
    "La Chronique des Arts." Gazette des Beaux-Arts 93 (April 1979): 1-84. Reproduced: P. 45, no. 224
    Brunel, Georges. Horace Vernet (1789-1863): [exposition] Académie de France à Rome, École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, mars-juillet 1980. Roma: De Luca, 1980. Mentioned: P. 83
    Talbot, William S. "Cogniet and Vernet at the Villa Medici." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 67, no. 5 (1980): 135-49. Reproduced: p. 141-42; Mentioned: p. 135-49 www.jstor.org
    Hauptman, William. “Gleyre, Vernet, and the Revenge of ‘Les Brigands Romains.’” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 68, no. 1 (January 1981): 17–34. Mentioned: P. 27; Reproduced: P. 30, fig. 20 www.jstor.org
    Chong, Alan. European & American Painting in the Cleveland Museum of Art: A Summary Catalogue. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1993. Mentioned and reproduced: P. 250
    Musée du Louvre, Anne de Margerie, and Yolande Manzano. Nouvelles Acquisitions du Département des Peintures (1991-1995). Paris: Editions de la Réunion des Musées Nationaux, 1996. Mentioned: P. 200; Reproduced: P. 203
    Pomarede, Vincent. "Le 'Portrait de Louise Vernet, Fille de L'Artiste,' Peint par Horace Vernet (1789-1863) entre par dation au department des Peintures." La Revue des Arts 46, no. 3 (June 1996): 14-15. Mentioned: P. 14
    d' Argencourt, Louise, and Roger Diederen. Catalogue of Paintings. Pt. 4. European Paintings of the 19th century. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1974. Mentioned and reproduced: P. 616-618, no. 216
    Bonfait, Olivier, and Sébastien Allard. Maestà di Roma: da Napoleone all'unità d'Italia. [Milan]: Electa, 2003. exh. cat. no. 53, p. 222.
    Le Nouëne, Patrick. "Guillaume Bodinier, Le Retour en Italie, Entre le Genre et le Paysage 1829-1848." Patrick Le Nouene, ed., 148-203. In Guillaume Bodinier, 1795-1872: Un Peintre Angevin en Italie. Angers: Expressions Contemporaines, 2011. Mentioned and reproduced: P. 150, ill. 117
    Harkett, Daniel, and Katie Hornstein. Horace Vernet and the Thresholds of Nineteenth-Century Visual Culture. Hanover, NH : Dartmouth College Press, 2017. Reproduced: pl. 15
  • Maestá di Roma, da Napoleon all'Unita d'Italia: Da Ingres à Degas. Les artistes français à Rome. Dahesh Museum of Art, New York, NY (September 9-November 9, 2003).
    Rococo, Revolution, Restoration. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 11-September 24, 1989).
    Portraiture: The Image of the Individual. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 22, 1983-January 22, 1984).
    The Artist and the Studio in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 5-August 13, 1978).
    Paris, Hôtel de M. Jean Charpentier. L'art et la vie romantiques (1923), no. 451, Son portrait par lui-même, au Vicomte de Breteuil.
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