Lot 196
  • 196

Claude-Joseph Vernet Avignon 1714 - 1789 Paris

Estimate
150,000 - 200,000 USD
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Description

  • Claude-Joseph Vernet
  • A coastal landscape at dusk with fishermen and women in the foreground, sailors disembarking from a ship beyond
  • signed and dated lower right JVernet. 1756
  • oil on canvas

Provenance

Acquired by M. du Bosse in 1754, for 40 écus;
His Excellency M. du Bausset, Minister Plenipotentiary to the Empress of Russia;
Montullé collection, Paris;
Their sale, Paris, Lebrun, December 22,  1783, lot 80;
Alphonse Lavallée, Paris, circa 1850;
Thence by family descent until sold, London, Sotheby's, July 9, 1998, lot 85 (£95,000).  

Literature

L. Lagrange, Joseph Vernet et la Peinture au XVIIIe Siècle, Paris 1864, pp. 337-38, 362;
F. Ingersoll-Smouse, Joseph Vernet, Peintre de Marine, Paris 1926, vol. I, p. 80, cat. no. 578, engraving reproduced fig. 127.

ENGRAVED
Daudet, 1767 (entitled 'Les Pêcheurs corses');
Mlle. Bertaud (entitled 'Pechêurs à ligne).