Master Paintings Part II

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Property from the Estate of Alexis Gregory, sold to benefit the Alexis Gregory Foundation

Emile-Jean-Horace Vernet

Portrait of the poet André Chénier (1762-1794), three-quarter length, seated at a table covered in a green cloth with papers and an inkwell, his hand tucked into his jacket

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January 30, 04:44 PM GMT

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15,000 - 20,000 USD

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Property from the Estate of Alexis Gregory, sold to benefit the Alexis Gregory Foundation

Emile-Jean-Horace Vernet

Paris 1789 - Paris 1863

Portrait of the poet André Chénier (1762-1794), three-quarter length, seated at a table covered in a green cloth with papers and an inkwell, his hand tucked into his jacket

signed and dated lower left: H Vernet1825

oil on canvas, unlined

canvas: 15 7/8 b 12 3/4 in.; 40.3 by 32.4 cm.

framed: 19 3/4 by 16 3/4 in.; 50.2 by 42.5 cm.

André Chénier was an influential and important poet of Revolutionary France, though most of his work was not published until the early 19th century, almost 25 years after his demise during the Terror. The legend of his political struggle and ultimate death was immortalized in Umberto Giordano’s opera Andrea Chénier (1896) as well as Chateaubriand’s work Le Génie du christianisme (1802), Sainte-Beuve’s Joseph Delorme (1829), and Vigny’s Stello (1832).