| Vernet,
Claude-Joseph (b. 1714, Avignon, d. 1789, Paris) |
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French painter, one
of the leading landscapists of the period. From 1733 to 1753 he worked
in Rome, where he was influenced by the light and atmosphere of Claude
and also by the more wild and dramatic art of
Salvator Rosa. With
Hubert
Robert, he became a leading exponent of a type of idealized and somewhat
sentimental landscape that had a great vogue at this time. Vernet was
particularly celebrated for his paintings of the sea-shore and ports,
and on returning to Paris in 1753 he was commissioned by Louis XV to paint
a series of the sea-ports of France. The sixteen which he did are in the
Louvre. |