Claude-Joseph Vernet

A shipwreck with figures coming ashore

1648
86.4 x 94 cm
Oil on canvas
Signed, inscribed and dated, lower left: Joseph Vernet f Romae 1748
Sale Christie's, London, 5 July 2011

In the family of the present owner since the 1950s
sale Christie's, London, 5 July 2011, nr. 14

View of the Gulf of Naples
1748

View of Naples and Vesuvius
1748

A harbour at sunrise
1747

A cove on a rocky Mediterranean coast, with small vessels and fishermen

The waterfalls of Tivoli with the villa of Meacenas
c. 1740-50