Four Artists seated at a table (Brunet, Potier, Tiercetin [?], Vernet)
Medium
Pen and brown ink, brush and gray wash
Dimensions
3 5/8 x 5 3/16 in. (9.1 x 13.1 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Bequest of Harry G. Sperling, 1971
Accession Number
1975.131.128
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
MenReadingChairsTables
About the Artist
Carle (Antoine Charles Horace) Vernet · 1758–1836
**Carle Vernet** (Antoine Charles Horace Vernet, 1758–1836) was a prominent French painter renowned for his dynamic depictions of horses, hunting scenes, and Napoleonic battle subjects. Born in Bordeaux as the youngest child of the celebrated marine and landscape painter Claude-Joseph Vernet, he displayed an early and intense passion for drawing horses from the age of five. He received a conventio...