The shepherdess in the Alps - Vernet
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Description
Booklet from the 1763 Salon:
"By Mr. Vernet, Academician.
[...] 92. La Bergere des Alpes, subject taken from M. Marmontel's Contes Moraux. We took the moment when the Bergere, recounting her misfortunes to young Fonrose, shows him her husband's Tomb. "
Mathon de La Cour, letter II, p. 46:
" The subject of the Tableau de la Bergere des Alpes is taken from M. Marmontel's Contes moraux. M. Vernet has taken the moment when Adélaïde, recounting her misfortunes to the young Fonrose, shows him[47] her husband's grave: the weeping of this Bergere, the generous sensibility of her Lover are well expressed in this piece, & the landscape in which this touching scene takes place, is very-beautiful. "
1. Signed and dated lower right "J. Vernet f. | 1763".
2. Commissioned by Mme Geoffrin in 1763. Seized from the émigré Boutin. Musées nationaux. Palais de Compiègne. Is the Tours painting the Compiègne one or a replica? Cat. Ingersoll Smouse, n°775.
3. Engraved by Pillement. Reproduction of the painting in the Musée Calvet, Avignon, signed and dated 1763.
Technical Data
Notice #000770
