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* Claude-Joseph Vernet Avignon 1714 - 1789 Paris
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Description
- Claude-Joseph Vernet
- Landscape with Bathers
- signed and dated lower left on the rock J. Vernet. F/1777
- oil on canvas
Provenance
Henry Ensminger;
His sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, March 5-7 1877, no. 290, "Port de mer-Les Baigneuses";
Ernest Sadi Carnot, second son of Marie François Sadi Carnot (1837-1894), President of the 3rd Republic of France from 1887-1894;
Thence by descent in the family to the present owner.
Literature
F. Ingersoll-Smouse, Joseph Vernet, Paris 1926, vol. II, p. 29 cat. no. 1018, Port de mer: baigneuses. Effet du matin.