Claude-Joseph Vernet (1714-1789)

细节

Claude-Joseph Vernet (1714-1789)

The Entrance to the Grotto at Posilipo, with onlookers

with inscriptions '[Ver]nett' and '28'; red chalk, watermark twice encircled fleur-de-lys
408 x 261mm.

来源

From an album probably compiled in Vienna in the early 19th Century.
A.A. Renouard; Paris, 20 November 1854 (to Potier, antiquarian bookseller, quai Malaquais).
Anon. sale; Versailles, 13 March 1966, lot 199, as Robert.

拍品专文

The treatment of the foliage is similar to that of Vernet's pen and ink drawings, for example that formerly in the Versailles album, P. Conisbee, Claude-Joseph Vernet, 1714-1789, exhib. cat., The Iveagh Bequest, Kenwood, London, 1976, no. 50, illustrated.