A River Landscape
Claude-Joseph Vernet (Avignon 1714 – Paris 1789)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1751 (signed and dated)
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
991 x 1359 mm (39 x 53 1/2 in)
Place of origin
Rome
Order this imageCollection
Uppark House and Garden, West Sussex
NT 138296.1
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, A River Landscape by Claude-Joseph Vernet (Avignon 1714 – Paris 1789), signed and dated, on rock behind pensive man on far left: Joseph Vernet/f Romae/1751. A golden-toned landscape with fishermen and a group of figures in the foreground on the bank of a river which winds between high rocks surmounted by buildings. Mountain to left, tower to the right. One of a pair (NT/UPP/P/131b is other).
Provenance
Commissioned in Rome by Benjamin Lethieullier at the same time as Vernet's 'Four Times of Day' (NT/UPP/P/121a-d) in the Dining Room; purchased by the National Trust from the Trustees of the late R.J. Meade-Fetherstonhaugh, Esq., 1974, with the help of a grant from the Purchase Grant Fund, 1976.
Credit line
Uppark, The Fetherstonhaugh Collection (National Trust)
Marks and inscriptions
signed
Makers and roles
Claude-Joseph Vernet (Avignon 1714 – Paris 1789) , artist