La Pêche à la ligne: A river landscape with fisherfolk in the foreground, a viaduct and a classical ruin on a promontory over the river beyond

Details

Circle of Claude-Joseph Vernet (1714-1789)
La Pêche à la ligne: A river landscape with fisherfolk in the foreground, a viaduct and a classical ruin on a promontory over the river beyond
oil on canvas
25 7/8 x 32 5/8 in. (65.7 x 82.9 cm.)

Provenance

(Probably) Georges Aubry, Paris.

Literature

(Probably) F. Ingersoll-Smouse, Joseph Vernet Paris 1926, I, p. 90, under no. 710.

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Lot Essay

This is presumably the replica mentioned by Florence Ingersoll-Smouse, loc. cit., of the painting bought with its pendant, Le Retour de la Pêche, by M. Poulhariez in 1759 for 1,000 livres. That picture, formerly in the collection of the Earls of Shrewsbury, Alton Towers, was engraved by P. Benazech in 1771.

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