Lot n° 6
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Horace VERNET (Bordeaux, 1758 - Paris, 1836) - Lot 6
Horace VERNET (Bordeaux, 1758 - Paris, 1836)
Portrait of Charles Burton (1813-1889) as a child
Original Belot canvas
Height : 21 cm
Width : 16 cm
On the back, Galerie Daber label, Label 39-41 and inscription on the back of the canvas H. V n°15.
Exhibition: Paris, Galerie Charles Daber, Petits chefs-d'œuvre imprévus, May 9-31, 1968, no. 3.
Charles Burton was Horace Vernet's nephew by marriage, and the son of his wife's sister. They traveled
together to Algeria in 1837, and then, accompanied by Frédéric Goupil-Fesquet, to Egypt and the Orient
from October 1839 to early 1840. He was an engineer officer. In our painting, the model is aged around ten years
which would place it around 1823-1825. We know of an earlier portrait of him by Vernet, circa 1815,
in which he is shown at two or three years of age, in a dress and in a landscape (repr. Catalog of the Horace
Vernet at the Château de Versailles, 2023-2024, p.166, Fig.43).
The Musée d'Orsay holds photographs, taken by Disdery in 1861, of Charles Burton as an adult, some of them
with his wife.
In this small canvas, Vernet seems to be recalling Antoine-Jean Gros's Portrait de Jacques Amalric (Petit
Palais, Musée des Beaux-Arts de la ville de Paris) and Géricault's portraits of children.
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