The tempest

Details

Claude-Joseph Vernet Avignon 1714-1789 Paris
The tempest
signed and dated 'J. Vernet 1751' (lower right)
oil on canvas
18¾ x 25 1/8 in. 47.7 x 63.8 cm.

Provenance

Succession de M.A. Arosa; Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 31 March 1882, lot 56 (for 420FF).
Anonymous sale; Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 24 April 1907, lot 65 (1200
francs to Bonnard).
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, Monte Carlo, 26 October 1981, lot 565 (to Galerie Bruno Meissner, Zurich).
Acquired from the above by the present owner.

Literature

F. Ingersoll-Smouse, Joseph Vernet: Peintre de Marine, Paris, 1926, I, p. 61, nos. 334 and 334bis, which may refer to the same painting.

Lot Essay

Dated 1751, this painting was executed by Vernet the same year that he returned from Italy to France. It is associated with two entries listed in Ingersoll-Smouse, 334 and 334 bis, although it is not clear that there are two separate paintings. The present painting's dimensions are nearly identical to that of no. 334, and it is definitely the painting that was included in the 1907 sale (that catalogue includes a photograph of the work). However, the description of 334bis is best describes the present lot, although the dimensions are not listed.

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