1773, Claude-Joseph Vernet, A Landscape at Sunset -- National Gallery (London)
From the museum label: An imaginary harbour is swathed in evening sunshine. Fishermen engage in gentle activity in the foreground while a ship is towed into port. Vernet paints the tiny figures furling the sails of the ship with painstaking precision. A lighthouse, visible in the haze at the entrance to the harbour, sits across from a classical temple, based on the Pantheon in Rome.
1773, Claude-Joseph Vernet, A Landscape at Sunset -- National Gallery (London)
From the museum label: An imaginary harbour is swathed in evening sunshine. Fishermen engage in gentle activity in the foreground while a ship is towed into port. Vernet paints the tiny figures furling the sails of the ship with painstaking precision. A lighthouse, visible in the haze at the entrance to the harbour, sits across from a classical temple, based on the Pantheon in Rome.