Storm and Shipwreck (1754) - Vernet
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Description
Booklet from the 1755 Salon:
"Storm & Shipwreck. Tableau haut de 2 pieds & demi, sur quatre pieds de large. Taken from the Cabinet of M. Le Marquis de Marigny. "
"To the right, a fortified town to which a steep path leads; below, a little ahead, in the sea a three-masted vessel comes crashing against a rock; sailors seek to save themselves in a rowboat. At the bow, other sailors pull a rope attached to the broken vessel, and two men support a dead woman. The distance is crowned by a castle and high mountains."
1. Signed on the right: J. Vernet f. 1754.
2. Purchased by the Marquis de Menars ("pour M. de Vandières, un tableau, toile d'empereur cent cinquante écus"). Marquis de Menars sale, 1782, no. 137 (to Gros with pendant). M*** sale, Nov. 26, 1787, no. 88. Count Kouchkeleff-Besborodko sale, June 5, 1869, n°39. Cat. Ingersoll Smouse, n°596, under the title "Naufrage".
3. Counterpart to "Paysage, blanchisseuses" (cat. Ingersoll Smouse, no. 689). There is another very similar Tempête by Vernet engraved by Flipart, Bnf Estampes Dc. 137 b in-fol; Marel print in 1852 under the title "Grande tempête", AA4 Flipart, cliché 57C13413. N° 136 Inventaire du Fonds Français.
Technical Data
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