Circle of Claude Joseph Vernet

The canvas has been relined. The paint surface is generally secure and under a dirty varnish. Some retouching, particularly to the sky, is visible to the naked eye and this is confirmed under UV light. Offered in a later parcel-gilt and red painted frame in good condition.
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A period copy after Vernet's original in the Musée d'Orléans, inv. no. 852 (see F. Ingersoll-Smouse, Vernet, vol. 1, Paris 1926, p. 64, cat. no 403, reproduced fig. 78).