Seapiece by Moonlight with Fisherman
after Claude-Joseph Vernet (Avignon 1714 – Paris 1789)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1700 - 1799
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
991 x 1372 mm (39 x 54 in)
Place of origin
France
Order this imageCollection
Castle Ward, County Down
NT 836190
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Seapiece by Moonlight with Fisherman, after Claude-Joseph Vernet (Avignon 1714 – Paris 1789), labelled de Loutherbourg/ ?Thomas Patch. A moonlit scene with boats on the water, on the right, a man fishing, and a group around a campfire with a tent on the bank on the left.
Provenance
Purchased from Edward Ward, 7th Viscount Bangor (1903 – 1993), in 1967, with a grant from the Ulster Land Fund
Credit line
Castle Ward, The Bangor Collection (accepted in lieu of tax by HM Treasury and transferred to the National Trust in 1953)
Marks and inscriptions
Moonlight Scene Loutherbourg (on frame)
Makers and roles
after Claude-Joseph Vernet (Avignon 1714 – Paris 1789) , artist previously catalogued as circle of Philip James de Loutherbourg (Strasbourg 1740 – London 1812), artist