‘DEUXIEME SUITE DE CHEVAUX (N? 17) D’APRES CARLE HORACE VERNET.’

– Depiction of a rider falling off a galloping horse in a rural setting.

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Description

Medium: Aquatint etching on wove (vellin) paper.

Sheet size: 52 x 33.5 cm (20.47 x 13.19 inch). Image size: 35.5 x 29 cm. (13.98 x 11.42 inch).

Condition: very good, given age. Light foxing, creasing and soiling. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.

LEVACHEZ, HORACE VERNET, HORSE, ENGRAVING, EQUESTRIAN, 18TH-CENTURY ART | EXPO-LARGE

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

From the “Deuxieme suite de chevaux” series.

Biography engraver: Charles F. G. Levachez (active 1760?1820), French engraver known for his equestrian prints.

Biography artist: Antoine Charles Horace Vernet, better known as Carle Vernet (1758-1836), was a French painter, the youngest child of Claude-Joseph Vernet and the father of Horace Vernet.