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A Landscape At Sunset
''A Landscape at Sunset'' is a 1773 landscape painting by the French artist Joseph Vernet. It portrays a view of a harbour bathed in sunshine on a summer's day with fisherman bringing on their catch. It was commissioned by King of Poland, Stanisław August Poniatowski as one of a pair of landscapes along with ''A Shipwreck in Stormy Seas''. After the deal fell through, the paintings were instead bought by the British general Clive of India. Both are now in the collection of the National Gallery in London. References Bibliography * Barker, Emma. ''Art & Visual Culture 1600-1850: Academy to Avant-Gard''. Tate Enterprises, 2013. * Conisbee, Phillip. ''French Paintings of the Fifteenth Through the Eighteenth Century''. National Gallery of Art, 2010. * Della Dora, Veronica. ''Where Light in Darkness Lies: The Story of the Lighthouse''. Reaktion Books, 2022. * Lipinski, Lisa Kim. ''Monet and Impressionism: Boats and Boating''. 1985. Paintings by Claude-Joseph Vernet 1773 pai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claude-Joseph Vernet
Claude-Joseph Vernet (; 14 August 17143 December 1789) was a French painter. His son, Carle Vernet, was also a painter. Life and work Vernet was born in Avignon. When only fourteen years of age he aided his father, Antoine Vernet (1689–1753), a skilled decorative painter, in the most important parts of his work. The panels of sedan chairs, however, could not satisfy his ambition, and Vernet left for Rome. The sight of the whales at Marseille and his voyage thence to Civitavecchia (Papal States' main port on the Tyrrhenian Sea) made a deep impression on him, and immediately after his arrival he entered the studios of whale painter Bernardino Fergioni and marine landscapist Adrien Manglard. Manglard and Fergioni initiated Vernet into seascape painting. In 1734, Vernet left for Rome to study landscape designers and maritime painters, like Claude Gellee Claude Lorrain, where we find the styles and subjects of Vernet's paintings. Slowly Vernet attracted notice in the artistic mil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |