Antoine Charles Horace Vernet, better known as Carle Vernet (1758 – 1836)

• Was a French painter.
• He was the youngest child of Claude Joseph Vernet and the father of Horace Vernet.
• Vernet was born in Bordeaux.
• At the age of five, he showed an extraordinary passion for drawing horses.
• He went through the regular academical course as a pupil of his father and of Nicolas-Bernard Lépicié.
• After winning the Prix de Rome (1782), he seemed to lose interest in the occupation, and his father had to recall him from Rome to prevent his entering a monastery.
• Carle's sister was executed by the guillotine during the Revolution.

• After this, he gave up art. 

• When he again began to produce under the French Directory (1795–1799), his style had changed radically.

• He started drawing in minute detail battles and campaigns to glorify Napoleon.

• His drawings of Napoleon's Italian campaign won acclaim as did the Battle of Marengo, and for his Morning of Austerlitz Napoleon awarded him the Legion of Honour.

• Louis XVIII of France awarded him the Order of Saint Michael. 

• Afterwards he excelled in hunting scenes and depictions of horses. 

• Carle Vernet was an avid horseman.

• He died in Paris.

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