A beautiful and well-executed painting reproducing one of the famous paintings made in 1779 by the French painter Claude Joseph Vernet, known for his marine views.
The painter in his paintings represented nature, leaving large spaces to the sky and paying particular attention to scenes of daily life that animated the different places, placing people as fundamental elements of his paintings.
In 1734 he left for Rome, embarking in Marseille for Civitavecchia. The long voyage by ship, observing the sea, the French and Italian coasts, marked his destiny as a painter, thus becoming the "painter of the sea". He remained in Rome for about twenty years spent painting ports, scenes of maritime life, sailing ships at sea, and storms. He maintained this style practically identically throughout his life, a landscape artist always attentive to the phenomena of the air combined with those of the sea.
In 1753 he was recalled to his homeland by the director of real estate works of Louis XV, who commissioned him, by royal order, 24 paintings to represent as many French ports, but only 15 of them were realized. Over time Vernet, nostalgically, resumed painting his most beloved themes, the coasts and the Italian maritime environment. Like one of his latest works "The Beach", now at the National Gallery.
Late nineteenth century
Oil on canvas
Measures: Height 50 cm Width 60 cm
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