Large 19thC Oil painting by/after Claude Vernet (1714 - 1789)

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Large 19thC Oil painting by/after Claude Vernet (1714 - 1789)

About the Item

A magnificent painting depicting travellers before the falls of Tivoli outside of Rome, with the Temple of Vesta in the background. A coach painter's son, Claude-Joseph Vernet first studied with his father, then with a painter in Aix-en-Provence. Supported by some of the region's art patrons, the young artist went to Rome in 1734, where he studied the works of Claude Lorrain and trained under a follower of Salvator Rosa and a French marine painter. By 1740, Vernet's landscape and seascape clients included artists Placido Costanzi and Sebastiano Conca and important Frenchmen, Italians, and especially the English. From 1746 until his death, he regularly sent pictures to the Salon, where they were enthusiastically received. Returning to France in 1753, Vernet became a full member of the Académie Royale. His fame was assured when Louis XV commissioned him to paint a series of ports of France; assisted by Pierre-Jacques Volaire, Vernet traveled around France for nine years. After 1762 he settled in Paris and painted highly successful storm scenes, shipwrecks, and moonlit night-pieces. These pictures foreshadowed Romantic landscape painting while appealing to the mid- to late 1700s' taste for the "terrible" and the Picturesque. It is known that Vernet painted more than twenty copies of this painting in all sizes during his lifetime. There is a label on the back of the painting under the title of Messrs. Costa and Conti, artists, Number 1818 Via Dei Bardi (studio on the first floor), ...keep the largest collection in Florence of Original Ancient and Modern paintings as well as copies of all the celebrated Masters. They were in business in Florence before 1850, and there business name appears in many travel guides of the period. Measurements below are frame size.

Attributed to:
Claude-Joseph Vernet (Painter)
Dimensions:
Height: 62 in (157.48 cm)Width: 80 in (203.2 cm)Depth: 4 in (10.16 cm)
Style:
Classical Roman (In the Style Of)
Materials and Techniques:
Canvas,Wood,Gilt,Painted
Place of Origin:
Italy
Period:
Mid-19th Century
Date of Manufacture:
circa 1850
Condition:
Wear consistent with age and use.
Seller Location:
Vancouver, CA
Reference Number:
1stDibs: LU90123014312