Joseph Verney (French) 1714-1789 Landscape at Sunset with Fishermen Returning with their Catch (1773),Oil on canvas
Vernet often made pendant pairs of paintings showing contrasting states of nature.This placid harbor scene with classical building bathed in warm evening light draws from the idyllic landscapes of the seventeenth-century painter Claude Lorraine whose work were much admired and sought after by British collectors in the 18th century.Contemporary viewers were increasingly aware of the "mood"if landscape and would have appreciated the dialectical juxtaposition of this painting to its stormy pendant.
Joseph Verney (French) 1714-1789 Landscape at Sunset with Fishermen Returning with their Catch (1773),Oil on canvas
Vernet often made pendant pairs of paintings showing contrasting states of nature.This placid harbor scene with classical building bathed in warm evening light draws from the idyllic landscapes of the seventeenth-century painter Claude Lorraine whose work were much admired and sought after by British collectors in the 18th century.Contemporary viewers were increasingly aware of the "mood"if landscape and would have appreciated the dialectical juxtaposition of this painting to its stormy pendant.