VERNET Claude - Joseph (School of) 1714 - 1789 Storm scene in an Italian port. Oil on canvas (Re-tooled; small accidents) H. 52 - W 76 cm Louis XVI-style wood and gilded stucco frame. Repeat with a few variations of a composition by Claude Joseph Vernet painted around 1753 and now in the Mauritshuis Museum in The Hague (Cf. 1 - Florence Ingersoll - Smouse, Joseph Vernet. Etude critique et catalog raisonné. Vol. I, n° 200 ; PL.XIX, n° 42 - Paris 1926 - 2 - Pierre Rosenberg, Guido Jansen, Jeroen Giltaij : Masterpieces of French painting in Dutch museums XVIIe - XVIIIe siècles ; n° 43, pp 181 - 183 - Dijon, Paris, Rotterdam 1992). Expert : Mr Patrice DUBOIS - Tel : +33(0)6 85 12 99 91

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