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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2015.152
People
Claude-Joseph Vernet, French (Avignon 1714 - 1789 Paris)
Title
River Landscape with Fishermen
Other Titles
Original Language Title: Paysage italien à la tour carrée
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
18th century
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/354368

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Brown ink, gray wash, and graphite on cream antique laid paper, laid down
Dimensions
24.3 × 37.8 cm (9 9/16 × 14 7/8 in.)
mount: 38.9 × 53.9 cm (15 5/16 × 21 1/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: verso of mount, graphite, upper left: [illeg.] / vernet / [illeg.]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Private Collection, France, sold; to [Gallerie Terrades, Paris, 2007], sold; to Harvard Art Museums, 2015.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Ann Milstein Nimetz Print and Drawing Acquisition Fund
Accession Year
2015
Object Number
2015.152
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
verso of mount, graphite: faint figure drawing

Publication History

  • Émilie Beck Saiello, Réflexions méthodologiques sur les dessins de Joseph Vernet, De David a Delacroix. Du tableau au dessin, Société du Salon du dessin (2016), pp. 71-80, 198, pp. 72, 198, repr. p. 198 as fig. 2

Exhibition History

  • 32Q: 2220 18th-19th Century, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 01/05/2017 - 04/19/2017

Verification Level

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