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ÉCOLE FRANÇAISE VERS 1770, ATELIER DE CLAUDE-JOSEPH VERNET
Marine au clair de lune
huile sur toile, sans cadre
116,5 x 163 cm. (453⁄4 x 641⁄4 in.)
Provenance
Vente anonyme, hôtel Drouot, Paris, (Me Tajan), 26 avril 1993, lot 54 (comme 'Joseph Vernet').
Vente anonyme, hôtel George V, Paris, (Me Tajan), 20 décembre 2000, lot 47 (comme 'Joseph Vernet').
Collection particulière, France.Literature
P. Conisbee, 'The shipwreck, 1772 by Claude-Joseph Vernet', Mélanges en hommage à Pierre Rosenberg, Paris, 2001, p. 158.Post Lot Text
FRENCH SCHOOL AROUND 1700, WORKSHOP OF CLAUDE-JOSEPH VERNET MARINE IN THE MOONLIGHT, OIL ON CANVAS, WITHOUT FRAME
Our painting is a replica made by Vernet's (1714-1789) workshop from an original painted by the artist in 1772 for Henry Arundell, 8th Baron Arundell of Wardour (1740-1808). The first version of our composition is now in the National Gallery of Arts, Washington (inv. no. 2018.13.1) with its counterpart depicting a storm (Washington, National Gallery of Arts, inv. no. 2000.22.1).
The quality of the present painting led the artist's specialist Philip Conisbee to believe that our version was an autograph replica of the painter's. He presented it as such at the 1993 sale before considering it to be a replica ('a good copy studio'; P. Conisbee, op. cit., p. 158) made by his studio in order to meet the numerous commissions Vernet had to fulfil in the 1770s.Special notice
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