Claude-Joseph Vernet

Literature

Philip Conisbee, French paintings of the fifteenth through the eighteenth century, Washington; Princeton, N.J., 2009, nr. 92

Provenance

Commissioned November 1771 by Henry, 8th Lord Arundell of Wardour (1740-1808), Wardour Castle, Tisbury, Wiltshire
by descent in his family
Arundell sale, at Wardour Castle, 10 September 1952, nr. 144, as The Storm (paired with The Calm)
with Galerie Popoff, Paris, by 1957
private collection, France
with Marc Blondeau, Paris/Sotheby's, New York
purchased 17 February 2000 by NGA

External links

National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. Accession number 2000.22.1

Other works by Claude-Joseph Vernet

A shipwreck with figures coming ashore
1648

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

An Italian harbour in stormy weather
c. 1740-50

Seascape, View of Sorrento