Lot 88
  • 88

English School, 18th century

Estimate
800 - 1,200 GBP
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Description

  • English School, 18th Century
  • Figures alighting from a small vessel in a Mediterranean harbour; Women washing on the banks of a river, a bridge beyond
  • a pair, both oil on canvas, unlined

Catalogue Note

The latter painting is a copy after the engraving by Leveau, reproducing in reverse the original work by Vernet, formerly in the Dutuit collection, Paris.1

1. See F. Ingersoll-Smouse, Joseph Vernet. Peintre de Marine. 1714-1789, Paris 1926, p. 96, cat. no. 779, reproduced plate LXXXXI, fig. 199.