The Bay of Naples with boats in the foreground, Vesuvius beyond

Details

Claude-Joseph Vernet (1714-1789)
The Bay of Naples with boats in the foreground, Vesuvius beyond
with inscription 'Vernet'
black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash
10¾ x 16 in. (271 x 404 mm.)

Provenance

From an album probably compiled in Vienna in the early 19th Century.
Antoine Augustin Renouard; Paris, 20 November 1854, part of lot 628 (to Potier, bookdealer).
Anonymous sale; Versailles, 13 March 1966.

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Lot Essay

This comes from an album of 53 drawings assembled in Vienna in the early 19th Century and dismembered in the 1966 sale at Versailles. Other drawings from the album were sold at Christie's, London, 4 July 1995, lots 139-144, and further drawings are in the Louvre, the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris, the Courtauld Institute, London, and in Orléans, Detroit and New York. A similar album is intact at the Albertina in Vienna, containing mostly depictions of Naples and the surrounding area.

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