Manner of Claude-Joseph Vernet
A pair of French harbour scenes at sunset: A view of the environs of Bayonne, with figures in the foreground and shipping offshore; A view of a port, with figures coming in to dock
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Manner of Claude-Joseph Vernet
A pair of French harbour scenes at sunset: A view of the environs of Bayonne, with figures in the foreground and shipping offshore; A view of a port, with figures coming in to dock
a pair, both oil on canvas, octagonal
each unframed: 86.6 x 132.8 cm.; 34⅛ x 52¼ in.
each framed: 100 x 146.1 cm.; 39⅜ x 57½ in.
With Windsor House Antiques Ltd and Berengar Antiques Ltd, Barnwell Manor, Northamptonshire;
Their sale, on the premises at Barnwell Manor, Northamptonshire, Sotheby's, 30 May 2002, lot 1023;
Private collection, The Old House, Apsley Guise, Bedfordshire;
By whom sold, Stansted Mountfitchet, Sworders, 19 November 2024, lot 115;
Where acquired.
The View of the environs of Bayonne closely relates to a composition by Claude-Joseph Vernet (1714–1789), known today from an engraving by Jean-Jacques Le Veau (1729–1786).1
1 F. Ingersoll-Smouse, Joseph Vernet: Peintre de Marine 1714–1789, Paris 1926, vol. II, pl. CXXXV, no. 1303, reproduced.
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