Claude-Joseph Vernet
The Shipwreck
1772113.5 x 162.9 cm
Oil on canvas
Signed and dated lower left: J. Vernet / F. 1772
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Literature
Collection catalogues
Philip Conisbee, French paintings of the fifteenth through the eighteenth century, Washington; Princeton, N.J., 2009, nr. 92
Literature
Ortrud Westheider and Michael Philipp (eds.), Impressionism, Munich; London; New York, 2017, p. 12 fig. 3
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
Other works by Claude-Joseph Vernet
A cove on a rocky Mediterranean coast, with small vessels and fishermen
The waterfalls of Tivoli with the villa of Meacenas
c. 1740-50
c. 1740-50
An Italian harbour in stormy weather
c. 1740-50
c. 1740-50
View Outside Sorrento
1745/50
1745/50
Seascape, View of Sorrento