Shipwreck
Claude-Joseph Vernet (Paris 1714 - Avignon 1789), manner of
Lot-No. 128
2nd half 18th cent., oil/wood, 47 x 58 cm. - Marine a. landscape painter, a master fo the 'sublime'. V. was taught painting in the studio of his father Horace. With a scholarship he could move to Italy in 1743 where he stayed for a long time. Commissioned by the French royal house he began painting the country's important harbours in 1753.
Claude-Joseph Vernet: Shipwreck
Claude-Joseph Vernet (Paris 1714 - Avignon 1789), manner of
Shipwreck
Lot-No. 128
2nd half 18th cent., oil/wood, 47 x 58 cm. - Marine a. landscape painter, a master fo the 'sublime'. V. was taught painting in the studio of his father Horace. With a scholarship he could move to Italy in 1743 where he stayed for a long time. Commissioned by the French royal house he began painting the country's important harbours in 1753.