VERNET, Antoine Charles Horace, 'Carle'. Carle (1758-1836). Vingt etudes de chevaux. [Paris: G. Engelmann, c. 1830]. Oblong 2° (430 x 573mm). 20 numbered coloured lithographic plates by F. Delpech after Vernet. (Some browning and spotting, some plates slightly tattered at foremargin.) Uncut in contemporary wrappers with manuscript title on front cover.
VERNET, Antoine Charles Horace, 'Carle'. Carle (1758-1836). Vingt etudes de chevaux. [Paris: G. Engelmann, c. 1830]. Oblong 2° (430 x 573mm). 20 numbered coloured lithographic plates by F. Delpech after Vernet. (Some browning and spotting, some plates slightly tattered at foremargin.) Uncut in contemporary wrappers with manuscript title on front cover.

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VERNET, Antoine Charles Horace, 'Carle'. Carle (1758-1836). Vingt etudes de chevaux. [Paris: G. Engelmann, c. 1830]. Oblong 2° (430 x 573mm). 20 numbered coloured lithographic plates by F. Delpech after Vernet. (Some browning and spotting, some plates slightly tattered at foremargin.) Uncut in contemporary wrappers with manuscript title on front cover.

TWENTY HORSES FROM AROUND THE WORLD IN VERNET'S OFTEN HIGHLY DRAMATIC POSES. Menessier de la Lance comments: 'Il fut donc surtout un peintre de chevaux ... il ne dessina que le cheval fin, français ou étranger, arabe ou anglais, mais surtout ce dernier qu'il représenta avec une vérité d'attitude et une exactitude anatomique inconnues jusqu'à lui.' (II, p. 617). This copy with no title or text. Sold as a collection of plates not subject to return.

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