ID 1437167 
Лот 36  | CLAUDE JOSEPH VERNET (AVIGNON 1714-1789 PARIS)
Оценочная стоимость
€ 60 000 – 100 000 
Vue d'un port au coucher de soleil avec des pêcheurs et un couple d'orientaux
signé et daté indistinctement 'J. Vernet / 17[...]' (en bas, à gauche)
huile sur toile
44,5 x 60 cm (17 ½ x 23 2/3 in.)
Provenance
[Peut-être] Vente anonyme, hôtel Drouot, Paris, 15 mars 1873, (Me Pillet), lot 61 (selon F. Ingersoll-Smouse, 1926, voir infra).
Collection particulière, Italie.
Literature
[Peut-être] F. Ingersoll-Smouse, Joseph Vernet. Peintre de marine. 1714-1789, Paris, 1926, II, p. 63, n°1479 (comme tableau non daté passé en vente publique comme de Claude Joseph Vernet - 'Port de mer : "A gauche, des rochers couverts d'arbres; au centre, un personnage oriental cause avec une jeune femme; un pêcheur aidé de sa femme charge sur ses épaules un panier plein de poissons, pendant que d'autres, dans leurs bateaux, vont jeter leurs filets; au deuxième plan, à droite, l'entrée du port." Signé : J. Vernet. H. 0,44; L. 0,60').
Further details
CLAUDE JOSEPH VERNET (1714-1789), VIEW OF A PORT AT SUNSET WITH FISHERMEN AND A COUPLE IN ORIENTAL DRESS, OIL ON CANVAS, SIGNED AND INDISTINCTLY DATED (LOWER LEFT)
This peaceful composition by Vernet (1714-1789), showing figures in oriental dress against the backdrop of a harbour at twilight, is known in various versions. One of these sold at in these rooms in 2001 (Christie's sale, London, 25 April 2001, lot 100) and is now in a private collection. The 2001 version is extremely close to that now offered, with its rocky arch and the view of the sculpture, which is modelled on the Monument of the Four Moors in Livorno that commemorates the victory of Ferdinand I de' Medici (1549-1609) over the Ottomans. The description under number 1479 in Ingersoll-Smouse's biography of the painter could just as easily relate to our version, which could be dated circa 1783-1785, as to the one sold in 2001 (F. Ingersoll-Smouse, 1926, see supra). Though the original commission of the work remains anonymous, it is clear that the exoticism of the composition seduced its contemporary audience, since another version on copper with slight variations also reappeared on the French art market in 2017 (sale, hôtel Drouot, Paris, 24 March 2017, (Mes Mirabaud & Mercier), no. 57).
The allusions to a mystical Orient that these southern ports seemed to promise certainly appealed in the second half of the eighteenth century. In Rome, Barbault (1718-1762) had also painted the Turkish masquerade, depicting his contemporaries at the Académie in Oriental dress during the Roman carnival, and the French aristocracy followed this trend by commissioning portraits in similar costumes. Madame de Pompadour (1721-1764) had her portrait painted as a sultana by van Loo (1705-1765) (Musée des Arts-Décoratifs, Paris, inv. 26544) and Fragonard (1732-1806) on his return from Italy in the 1770s painted a Pasha who was more fantastical than plausible (Private collection).
| Автор: | Клод Жозеф Верне (1714 - 1789) | 
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| Техника исполнения: | Масло на холсте | 
| Художественный стиль: | Старые мастера | 
| Жанр: | Морской пейзаж | 
| Место происхождения: | Западная Европа, Франция, Европа | 
| Категория аукционного дома: | Картины, Акварели, Рисунки, Картины | 
| Автор: | Клод Жозеф Верне (1714 - 1789) | 
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| Техника исполнения: | Масло на холсте | 
| Художественный стиль: | Старые мастера | 
| Жанр: | Морской пейзаж | 
| Место происхождения: | Западная Европа, Франция, Европа | 
| Категория аукционного дома: | Картины, Акварели, Рисунки, Картины | 
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