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Study of a Warship's Prow with British Warships and Naples Harbor Beyond
Claude Joseph Vernet (French, 1717-1789)
c. 1748
- Medium
- Pen and iron gall ink, with brush and dark gray, light gray and brownish gray wash, over black chalk, on ivory laid paper, laid down on ivory laid paper
- Classification
- Drawing and Watercolor
- Dimensions
- Primary support: 36.6 × 47.9 cm (14 7/16 × 18 7/8 in.); Secondary support: 45.8 × 53.7 cm (18 1/16 × 21 3/16 in.)
- Culture
- France
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Regenstein Endowment Fund
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
View at the Art Institute of Chicago
About this work
Like many French artists, Claude Vernet made a pilgrimage to Rome, remaining for almost 30 years (1734–63). While there he made excursions across Italy, executing drawings “on the spot.” In the late 1740s, he spent some time in Naples, near the classical sites rediscovered at Herculaneum in 1738 and at Pompeii in 1748. He became famous for his series of views of the ports of France, commissioned in 1753.
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
