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Claude-Joseph Vernet (French pronunciation: [klod ʒozɛf vɛʁnɛ]; 14 August 1714 – 3 December 1789) was a French painter. His son, Antoine Charles Horace Vernet, was also a painter.
Claude-Joseph Vernet was the leading French landscape painter (with Hubert Robert) of the later 18th century. He achieved great celebrity with his topographical paintings and serene landscapes. He was also one of the century's most accomplished painters of tempests and moonlight scenes.
Claude-Joseph Vernet was born in Avignon in 1714, the son of Antoine Vernet (1689-1753), an artisan painter of architectural decorations, coach panels, and the like.
Claude-Joseph Vernet (14 August 1714 – 3 December 1789) was a French painter. His son, Antoine Charles Horace Vernet, was also a painter. Vernet was born in Avignon.
- French
- August 14, 1714
- Avignon, France
- December 3, 1789
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- French
Jan 18, 2024 · After 1762 he settled in Paris and painted highly successful storm scenes, shipwrecks, and moonlit night-pieces. These pictures foreshadowed Romantic landscape painting while appealing to the mid- to late 1700s' taste for the "terrible" and the Picturesque.
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Claude-Joseph Vernet, The Shipwreck, 1772, oil on canvas, Patrons' Permanent Fund and Chester Dale Fund, 2000.22.1 2 of 19 In Vernet’s Shipwreck , lightning spotlights a seaside town in the far distance and the breaking waves on the near shore.