HORACE VERNET. 1789-1863

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Oil on canvas. 28 X 22 cm. Inv. No 786 Vernet's Cavalcade is a sketch for the picture Festival at Tsarskoye Selo (in the possession of the museum in the town of Pushkin, near Leningrad), portraying Nicholas I and his family in fancy dress on horseback. The sketch was made during the artist's second visit to St Petersburg in 1842—43. Provenance: until 1918 The Bariatinskys Collection, St Petersburg — Petrograd; since 1924 The Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow

Bibliography: Кат. ГМИИ 1957, p. 27; Кат. ГМИИ 1961, p. 37; Dussieux 1856, p. 428; E. Bellier de la Chavignerie, L. Auvray, Dictionnaire general des artistes #/3 I'ecole francaiss depuis I'origine des arts du dessin jusqu 'a nos jours, 2 vols., Paris, 1882—85, vol. 2, p. 658; H. Врангель, "Иностранцы в России", Старые годы, 1912, July — September, p. 29; М. Beule, Eloge de M. Horace Vernet, Paris, 1863, p. 23

106 CAVALCADE