#vernet

[adini-nikolaevna]

“It is truly impossible to imagine anything more perfect than this imperial family together. The Emperor, Empress and their children could be characters from some fairy tale!”

—Comtesse Dorothea de Ficquelmont on the family of Emperor Nicholas I of Russia.

[detournementsmineurs]

"Portrait de Louise Vernet (Fille de l'artiste)" par Horace Vernet, circa 1830.

[empirearchives]

Portrait of Napoleon

Attributed to Carle Vernet (1758-1836)

(Artcurial)

[useless-catalanfacts]

Vernet, Northern Catalonia.

Photo by clara_d66 on Instagram.

[perfectmuseum]

Claude-Joseph Vernet (1714-1789), Orientaux dans une crique au soleil couchant, 1780, huile sur cuivre, 39 x 48 cm.

[hsundholm]

The Dallemagne Tomb by Henrik Sundholm Via Flickr: One of the numerous grave monuments on the Montparnasse Cemetery in Paris, France.

[warblingandwriting]

Port maritime, Sunrise, Claude Joseph Vernet, 1757.

Love, all alike, no season knows nor clime, Nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

-The Sun Rising, John Donne.

Love the beauty of the sunrise, hate the passage of time.

[all-action-all-picture]

Storm by Claude Joseph Vernet (1773). One of two paintings commissioned by the King of Poland in 1772 although Vernet instead sold them to Robert Clive (Clive of India). Crafty man.