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Artist = Vernet, Claude-Joseph
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Claude-Joseph Vernet (1714 - 1789):
Coastal Scene (La nuit)
A1036; oil on canvas; 97 x 123 cm.
Bequeathed by A.G. Gooch through The Art Fund, 1967; WA1967.60.1.
Ingersoll-Smouse 1926, no. 396.
Vernet made his reputation in Rome from 1734-53, attracting an international clientele as a specialist in marine painting. In 1750 he painted a series of four oval Times of Day destined for Joseph Leeson, later Lord Milltown. A1036 is a rectangular replica of the fourth scene. Other Grand Tourists in Rome commissioned similar sets from Vernet in the 1750s. A1036 was copied by Charles François Lacroix de Marseille.
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Information derived from the Ashmolean Museum's Complete Illustrated Catalogue of Paintings.