LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

38.98 in. (99.00 cm.) (height) by 71.93 in. (182.70 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed and dated lower left: Joseph Vernet f/ 1757

Exhibited:

Paris, Salon, 1759, no. 67; London, Arthur Tooth & Sons,  Recent Acquisitions on Exhibition, 15 November - 18 December, 1954, no. 22.

Literature:

F. Ingersoll-Smouse, Joseph Vernet, Paris 1926, vol. I, p. 87, no. 683 and p.53, plate LXVII (engraving), fig.683; Advertisment in The Burlington Magazine, vol. XCVI, December 1954, unpaginated, reproduced plate XXI; G. Briganti, The View Painters of Europe, London 1970, pp. 280-281, reproduced fig. 246; Probably B. Fredericksen, ed., The Index of Paintings Sold in the British Isles during the Nineteenth Century, vol. 2, Oxford 1990, part 2, pp. 1052, 1053, 1056.; ENGRAVED; By Pietro Antonio Martini in 1782, with a dedication to the Prince des Asturies.

Provenance:

Commissioned by Louis-Gabriel Peilhon (1700-1762), Conseiller-Secrétaire du Roi, in 1751, who paid the artist 1,500 livres in 1757; His deceased sale, Paris, Remy, 16 May 1763, lot 82, for 4,000 livres; Pierre Louis Paul Randon de Boisset (1708-1776), Receveur général des Finances; His deceased sale, Paris, Chariot, 18 March 1777, lot 202, to "Ste Foy par Aubert" for 4,200 livres; Ange-Joseph Aubert (1736-1785), Joaillier de la Couronne; His deceased sale, Paris, Hugues, 2 March 1786, lot 58 to Paillet for 4,300 livres; Anonymous sale (Louis-François Saubert or J. Desmarest), Paris, Boileau, 17 March 1789, lot 88 to Marin for 3,702 livres; M. Marin; His deceased sale, Paris, Serreau, 22 March 1790, lot 339 to Joseph-Alexandre Lebrun(?) for 3,000 livres; Probably anonymous sale, London, European Museum, 26 May 1806, lot 1738;1; Brightric Gofton Hutton Gee (d. 1949), Curraghen, Chew Magna, Bristol, 1954; With Arthur Tooth & Sons, London, 1954; From whom acquired by the father of the present owner.