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Property of a private American collector

Claude-Joseph Vernet

View of a Mediterranean port with a group of figures on the shore's edge, a large ship beyond

Auction Closed

May 20, 03:42 PM GMT

Estimate

10,000 - 15,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property of a private American collector

Attributed to Claude-Joseph Vernet

Avignon 1714 - 1789 Paris

View of a Mediterranean port with a group of figures on the shore's edge, a large ship beyond


oil on canvas

canvas: 30 ¾ by 47 ½ in.; 78.1 by 120.7 cm. 

framed: 43 by 59 ½ in.; 109.2 by 151 cm. 

Comte de Baubigny (according to a label on the reverse);
Anonymous sale, New York, Sotheby's, 25 May 2000, lot 80 (as Volaire);
There acquired by the present collector. 
E. Beck Saiello, Pierre Jacques Volaire 1729-1799 dit le Chevalier Volaire, Paris 2010, pp. 262-3, cat. no. PI. 3, reproduced pp. 40, 262 (as Vernet and Volaire?).