Tuesday, 26 February 2013
Claude-Joseph Vernet: The Shipwreck
Posted on 05:25 by Unknown
Claude-Joseph Vernet: The Shipwreck
oil on canvas, 1772
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
Patrons' Permanent Fund and Chester Dale Fund
(http://www.nga.gov/fcgi-bin/timage_f?object=111194&image=23048&c=)
no copyright infringement intended
The Shipwreck epitomizes the type of marine subject for which Vernet was best known. It was commissioned, along with a pendant Mediterranean
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