* Claude-Joseph Vernet Avignon 1714 - 1789 Paris

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Description

Claude-Joseph Vernet
The Banishment of Hagar and Ishmael
signed and dated lower left Joseph Vernet F/ 1753
oil on canvas

Provenance

Painted with pendant for M. Budlet, Paris;
Brunot, Paris;
His sale, Paris, Hôtel de Bullion, February 12, 1827, no. 23, with pendant, Deux tableaux,. don't un offert la vue d'une grande étendue de mer, le peintre y a ajouté l'épisode de Jonas au moment où il sort du ventre de la baleine, l'autre a pour sujet Agar et Ismael, représentés dans un vaste paysage. Ils portent tous deux la date de 1753, ont été faits a Rome et sont gravés;
Marcille, Paris;
His sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, January 12-13, 1857, nos. 143-144, with pendant;
Anonymous sale, Versailles, Trianon Palace, March 20, 1958, lot 35.

Exhibited

Rochester, Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, La Grande Manière: historical and religious painting in France 1700-1800, May 2-July 26, 1987, no. 57.

Literature

L. Lagrange, Joseph Vernet et la peinture du XVIII^e, Paris 1864, pp. 342-343, no. 194 (with pendant, as dated 1753);
F. Ingersoll-Smouse, Joseph Vernet, Peintre de Marine, Paris 1926, p. 96, cat. no. 784 (as dated 1763).

Catalogue Note

Vernet gained his reputation as a painter of landscapes and seascapes. A testament to his success is the Royal commission he received from Louis XV to paint a series of canvases depicting the Ports of France. While sea and landscapes were the artist’s forte, he is also known to have depicted historical and biblical subjects.

The present lot, and its pendant Jonah Emerging from the Belly of the Whale (German, private collection) were painted in 1753, the year Vernet returned from Italy to his native France. According to Ingersoll-Smouse (see Literature below), the pair were engraved by Jean-Baptiste Tillard.