ID 1336111
Lot 32 | CLAUDE JOSEPH VERNET (AVIGNON 1714-1789 PARIS)
Estimate value
€ 100 000 – 150 000
Coucher de soleil avec un navire de guerre hollandais
signé et daté 'J. Vernet. F / 1765' (en bas, au centre)
huile sur toile
54 x 81,5 cm (21 ¼ x 32 1/16 in.)
Provenance
Commandé à l'artiste par M. Oudermeulen, Amsterdam, en 1765 (avec son pendant, La Tempête) ; sa vente, Amsterdam, 25 juillet 1778, lots 8-11 (selon F. Ingersoll-Smouse, 1926, op. cit. infra).
Madame Jeanne Lanvin (1867-1946) et sa fille, Marie-Blanche di Pietro (1897-1958), comtesse Jean de Polignac, hôtel Lanvin, rue Barbet de Jouy, Paris et Neuilly ;
Puis par descendance dans la famille ; leur vente [Souvenirs de Madame Lanvin et de sa fille la comtesse Jean de Polignac], hôtel Drouot, Paris, 5 décembre 2008, lot 10.
Chez Jean-François Heim, Paris, en 2009 (selon le RKD — Nederlands Instituut voor Kunstgeschiedenis).
Collection particulière, Italie.
Literature
F. Ingersoll-Smouse, Joseph Vernet. Peintre de marine. 1714-1789. Étude critique suivie d'un catalogue raisonné de son oeuvre peint, Paris, 1926, II, p. 10, n°821-22 (comme un coucher de soleil 'avec un fond où il y a un fanal et une galerie en colonnade et un vaisseau de guerre hollandais').
Further details
CLAUDE JOSEPH VERNET (1714-1789), SUNSET WITH A DUTCH WARSHIP, OIL ON CANVAS, SIGNED AND DATED
Claude Joseph Vernet (1714-1789) enjoyed an international reputation even before he became official marine painter to Louis XV (1710-1774) in 1753 with the famous commission for a series depicting the great ports of France. His stay at the Académie de France in Rome had established his reputation among a cosmopolitan clientele in the circle of his great friend, the French ambassador, the Duc de Saint-Aignan (1712-1788). His marriage in 1745 to the Irishwoman Virginia Paker (1728-1810), daughter of an English captain in the Papal Navy, also introduced him to the Anglo-Saxon public and opened up his clientele to a include northern Europeans.
Vernet, adapting to his patrons specific desires, drew on his architectural and naval motifs to combine them in attractive fictional compositions. At the request of his Amsterdam patron, Mr Oudermeulen, here Vernet incorporates details specific to him, such as the Dutch flag on the ship's mast. The Dutchman may also have been pleased by the very French allusion to the east wing of the Louvre, which is included in the buildings at far right. This shows the colonnade in its pre-1770 state before the sloping roofs at its ends were removed.
Artist: | Claude Joseph Vernet (1714 - 1789) |
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Applied technique: | Oil on canvas |
Art style: | Old Masters |
Genre: | Marine art |
Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe |
Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings |
Artist: | Claude Joseph Vernet (1714 - 1789) |
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Applied technique: | Oil on canvas |
Art style: | Old Masters |
Genre: | Marine art |
Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe |
Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings |
Address of auction |
CHRISTIE'S 8 King Street, St. James's SW1Y 6QT London United Kingdom | |
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