Les Jockeys montés; Les Apprèts d'une course

by After Carle Vernet, Antoine-Charles-Horace

$750 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books

A fine pair of French racing prints after one of the greatest French horse painters of the 19th century Vernet was a member of a prominent family of French painters. His father was a well-known marine painter, but Carle rose to fame during the Empire with his drawings of the Italian campaign and his paintings: The Battle of Marengo and Morning of Austerlitz . During the Restoration he was popular as a lithographer and painter of dogs, horses, racing and scenes of the

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