Claude-Joseph Vernet
(1714-1789)
Orientalischer Seehafen bei Sonnenaufgang,
Um 1755
Material / Technology / Carrier
Kupfer
Dimensions of the object
30 x 43,5 cm
Displayed
Not on display
Acquisition
1799 aus der Galerie Zweibrücken
Stock
Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen - Alte Pinakothek München
Citation
Claude-Joseph Vernet, Orientalischer Seehafen bei Sonnenaufgang, Um 1755, Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen - Alte Pinakothek München, URL: https://www.sammlung.pinakothek.de/en/artwork/jWLpZay4KY (Last updated on 11.11.2022)
Vernet combines the tradition of older landscape painting—especially that of Claude Lorrain—with precise observations from nature in his harbour scenes, sea and coastal pictures. The location of the ‘oriental seaport’ is fictive; the well and the fortress are Neapolitan motifs.
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