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Harbour scene - Naples
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1714-1789
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Width: 42.6 cm
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Exhibition History
French Drawings: XVI-XIX Centuries, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 04/07/1991-06/10/1991
French drawings of the 17th and 18th century, Fermoy Art Gallery, King's Lynn, 1985 ...More
Claude-Joseph Vernet: 1714-1789, Iveagh Bequest, Kenwood; Musée de la Marine, Palais de Chaillot, Paris, 14/06/1976-09/01/1977
French Masters - Rococo to Romanticism, UCLA, Los Angeles, 1961
Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery, 1959 ...Less
Literature
cat. no. 114
Fig. repr.
Sotheby's, 1996
under no. 100
Fig. repr.
Moatti, Paris, Old Master Drawings, May 1994
under no. 20
Fig. 1 ...More
French Drawings: XVI-XIX Centuries, Courtauld Gallery, London, 1991
no. 46, p. 102
Fig. p. 103 (b&w) and n.p. (colour)
Joseph Vernet: 1714-1789, Iveagh Bequest, Kenwood; Musée de la Marine, Palais de Chaillot, Paris, 1976-1977
cat. no. 63
Fig. repr. ...Less
Inscriptions
Inscription: Recto: lower left edge, brown ink, signed by the artist?: “Vernet”. Fragment of historic mount (cut down and now mounted with the drawing), Recto: lower centre in cartouche, brown ink: “Josephe Vernet.”. Mount (removed, in portfolio from P&D), Verso: pen and brown ink, left half of sheet and upper right covered in numbers and letters labelling architectural sketch; upper centre, brown ink: “Les limons - - - [...] 6 pouces, jusqua la barre sur 3 pouces Du large Depuis ladites Barre / et la termine de 1 pouce 6 ligne faux [...] //”; lower right, brown ink, cut off at edge: “A cm 12 partées egalles qui Gous[?] Donneront 13 Cartées a Distance De 2 pouces chargée / commes elles sont través sur la figure eqontre sur chacunes D'elles trait un qaarré De / en Dessous et De Sen Dessas. Dan lesquels [...] 6 Dents De fer […] et trempé / 9 pouces Delong hors la Barre De 24 linges De large avec epaulement et […] comme ly tr[…] / De coadre[ ?] Dont le tenon De 3 pouces quarrés De haut et un p[…] / arrondis pour q recevoir L’ivroies et larondelle L’inclinaison Des Dittes Dents est De 4 / pris De l’epaulement en arriere, a la pointe en avant__ / Sur la Barre B traits les trous quarrés De meme qua la Barre A _ et / Des Dents De 8 pouces Delong sur 20 Delargeur et 9 lig. De puisseur __ avec Meme inclinaison / sur la Barre l. traits les memes trous qaarrés et posis les Dents de 7. Pouces De long / 18. Delarge et De 9 Depuisseur avec Meme inclinaison //”; lower centre, graphite, source of Witt's acqusition: “Ber 30”.
Collector's mark: Fragment of historic mount (cut down and now mounted with the drawing), Recto: lower left corner, stamped in black ink: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).
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