David O'Brien
“This book provides a much-needed reexamination of Vernet and helps us to understand why his art met with both huge success and bitter disapproval. In the process, it reveals many of the key assumptions and anxieties that lay beneath nineteenth-century artistic practice.It should revive interest in Vernet.”
Beth Wright
“This collection of essays by leading scholars about one of the most prominent artists of 19th century France incorporates all of Vernet’s activities, from exhibition strategies to exploring the new medium of the daguerreotype, from taking part in official missions to Algeria to serving as director of the French academy in Rome, and provides valuable insights into the arts in their cultural, political and technical contexts.”
Richard Wrigley
“Horace Vernet is one of the quintessential artists of the first half of the nineteenth century, and this collection of essays creates a detailed and complex picture of a central figure in the art world of his time. This volume makes an original contribution to the study of the artist and his work.”
Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby
“This collection will introduce scholars and students to the prominent role Horace Vernet played in the visual culture of nineteenth-century France and thereby change the landscape of nineteenth-century studies.”
Marc Gotlieb
“Celebrated in his day and then despised for the next 150 years, Horace Vernet has finally met a team of interpreters that dojustice to this important and fascinating artistic career. It’s not simply a question of revaluing the career of a forgotten master.Rather Vernet stands, as the volume’s editors well put it, on the threshold of a vast transformation in the European system of thevisual arts. From the emergence of new technologies of mass culture to the visual culture of modern imperialism, Vernet was there— a volume of high intellectual importance for the field of nineteenth-century art and its visual culture."
