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Attributed to Claude-Joseph Vernet Avignon 1714 - 1789 Paris
Estimate
40,000 - 60,000 USD
bidding is closed
Description
- Claude-Joseph Vernet
- Ships Tossed on a Stormy Sea
- inscribed lower right J. Vernet
- oil on panel
Provenance
Comte de La Beraudière;
His sale, Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, May 26, 1913, lot 29-30 (Le Calme and La Tempête, sold as a pair);
Anonymous sale, New York, Sotheby's, June 5, 2002, lot 138.
His sale, Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, May 26, 1913, lot 29-30 (Le Calme and La Tempête, sold as a pair);
Anonymous sale, New York, Sotheby's, June 5, 2002, lot 138.
Literature
F. Ingersoll-Smouse, Joseph Vernet, Paris 1926, vol. II, p. 97, cat. no. 2047, reproduced figure 327 (mistakenly listed as a pendant to cat. no. 1289; correctly a pendant to cat. no. 1381, reproduced figure 323, as a replica or copy of the Prague painting).
Catalogue Note
This painting is a smaller version of Naufrage, signed and dated 1772, in the Narodni Gallery, Prague (see F. Ingersoll-Smouse, op.cit., cat. no. 962, reproduced figure 242).