2026-05-10T12:23:31Z

Pierre Sanchez Collection of Horace Vernet Graphic Works (SC-28)

Creator

Sanchez, Pierre, 1963-

Abstract Or Scope

The collection was assembled by the French scholar Pierre Sanchez, who collected hundreds of lithographs by Horace Vernet (1789-1863) to write the catalogue raissoné of Vernet's lithographic work. The largest privately owned collection of Vernet's graphic works, the collection is comprised of three unpublished volumes of over 300 works, as well as eight loose prints, one poster, and one letter.
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Collection Context

1. Virginia Museum of Fine Arts