LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

34.25 in. (87.00 cm.) (height) by 44.72 in. (113.60 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed and dated, lower left: j. vernet / F. 1788

Literature:

L. Lagrange, Joseph Vernet et la peinture au XVIIIe siècle avec le texte des Livres de Raison et un grand nombre de documents inédits, Paris 1864, pp. 274, 358, 474-475, and c. 314 from the Livre de Raison;; Ingersoll-Smouse, Joseph Vernet, peintre de Marine, Paris 1926, vol. II, p. 42, no. 1172; J.-F. Heim, C. Beraud and P. Heim, Les Salons de Peinture de la Révolution Française 1789-1799, Paris 1989, p. 375.

Provenance:

Commissioned with its pendant The Storm from the artist by Mr. Pope (or Paupe), by 1788; His sale, Paris, 30 January 1792, lot 12 (sold together with its pendant for 6430 livres); Laurent Gaspard Grimod de la Reynière; His sale, Paris, 3 April 1793, lot 174 (sold together with its pendant for 8000 livres); Anonymous sale, Paris, 27-28 November 1816, lot 34 (the pendant sold as lot 35); Hugh Burton-Jones, before 1947; Anonymous sale, London, Christie's, ("Property of a Gentleman"), 10 July 1998, lot 43, illustrated on the front cover of catalogue; There purchased by the present collector.