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Joseph Vernet

Born : 1714Died : 1789

Claude Joseph Vernet, known as Joseph Vernet (Avignon, 1714 – Paris, 1789), is distinguished by a practice of landscape and marine painting that took shape during his stay in Rome, which began in 1734 and lasted nineteen years. Trained by Louis René Vialy and Philippe Sauvan, he continued his training with Adrien Manglard. In Rome, the teaching of this landscape and marine painter was important to his training; Vernet was also drawn to a style of painting whose effects of light owed much to Claude Lorrain. It was in these genres that he found success in the Italian capital.

His paintings attracted French and English patrons: in 1739, the duc de Saint-Aignan, the French ambassador to Rome, already owned three and commissioned five more from him. Vernet married Virginia Parker in Rome in 1745. In the same year, he was agréé by the Académie royale de Paris; he became a member of the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture on 23 August 1753. He left Italy in 1753, stayed in Marseille and then went to Paris, where he and his family were lodged in the galleries of the Louvre. He attended the Academy’s sessions.

For the series of ports, he travelled to the sites to make sketches and record colour schemes, then painted the works in the studio. Observation of the site was thus combined with an element of imagination. The series was also made available to the public in the form of prints sold by subscription. Thirteen paintings from this series are now on display at the Musée national de la Marine in Paris, where they were deposited by the Louvre in 1943. The interest aroused by his work is also evident at the Salon of 1767, where Denis Diderot comments on seven paintings in a text known by the title La Promenade Vernet.

From 1765 onwards, Vernet devoted himself to imaginary seascapes. Diderot commissioned two paintings from him in 1768 and 1769. In 1769, the comtesse du Barry commissioned five large paintings from him. He travelled to Switzerland in 1778. At the Salon of 1789, he still presented several paintings.

This profile brings together identity references for Joseph Vernet and paintings, drawings and works on paper documented in auction catalogues.

Documented auction references

25auction references

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5documented results with prices

Dobiaschofsky · Schuler · Genève Enchères · Piguet · Lempertz

References include catalogue entries and available results; they do not all represent completed sales. Attributed works and special lots are excluded from the priced results.

Works recorded at auction

Photograph : Lempertz · Enlarge image ↗

Lempertz · Lot 1595

Ruhige See: Fischer in felsiger Bucht

Oil on canvas

Original catalogue wording

Ruhige See: Fischer in felsiger Bucht
Öl auf Leinwand

Auction date : 2022-11-19

Published result : 69300 EUR

Including buyer’s premium

Estimate : 50000

Joseph Vernet

Documented auction references

Works recorded at auction

Ruhige See: Fischer in felsiger Bucht

Umkreis Schlucht mit Fischern, bei einem Wasserfall rastend

Küstenlandschaft am Nachmittag - aus einer Serie von vier Tageszeiten

Umkreis Mediterrane Küstenlandschaft mit Fischern

und Atelier Rückkehr der Fischer in eine mediterrane Hafenstadt bei Sonnenaufgang

Paysage animé au pont

References excluded from statistics: attributions and special lots

Suiveur de Joseph Vernet — Deux marines animées avec caprices architecturaux

in der Art Fischer und Wäscherinnen am Hafen

École de Joseph Vernet — Scène de tempête,

Suiveur de Joseph Vernet — Scène de port animé,

In the manner of

In the manner of

In the manner of

École de Joseph Vernet — Marine

In the manner of

Entourage de Joseph Vernet — Port en Méditerranée

D’après Claude-Joseph Vernet — Claude-Joseph Vernet (1714-1789), d'après, Scène de

Suiveur de Joseph Vernet — Le départ à la pêche

In the manner of

In the manner of

Suiveur de Claude Joseph Vernet — Bord de mer, tempête

Dans le goût de Claude Joseph Vernet — Couple au bord d'une mer agitée avec voilier au large,

In the manner of

Dans le goût de Joseph Vernet — L'accostage,

Original title: Suiveur de Claude Joseph Vernet — Claude Joseph Vernet (1714-1789), suiveur de, Scènes

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