II. ANTOINE CHARLES HORACE VERNET (1758-1836), COM monly called CARLE, the youngest child of the above, was born at Bordeaux in 1758. His first important work, was his "Triumph.
of Paulus Aemilius"; in this picture he broke with reigning tra ditions in classical subjects, and drew the horse with the forms he had learnt from nature in stables and riding-schools. The Revolution, and his sister's death on the scaffold, stopped his artistic career. When he again began to produce, it was as the man of another era : his drawings of the Italian campaign brought him fresh laurels; his vast canvas, the "Battle of Marengo," obtained great success ; and for his "Morning of Austerlitz" Napoleon bestowed on him the Legion of Honour. His hunting
pieces, races, landscapes, and work as a lithographer (chiefly under the Restoration) had a great vogue. In 1827 he ac companied his son Horace (see below) to Rome, and died in Paris on his return, on Nov. 27, 1836.