Saturday, December 2, 2023

 Claude-Joseph Vernet
(1714 – 1789)

Claude-Joseph Vernet  was a French painter, born in Avignon.
For twenty years Vernet lived in Rome, producing views of seaports, storms, calms, moonlights, and large whales, becoming especially popular with English aristocrats, many of whom were on the Grand Tour.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude-Joseph_Vernet

A Mountain Scenery with a River
1770
Oil on canvas
65,5 x 97,5
Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen
https://open.smk.dk/en/artwork/image/KMS3765

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