Morning: A coastal landscape with fishermen unloading their catch and a ships beyond

The prototype for this painting is signed and dated '1747' and was exhibited at the Salon in that year (no. 124) is recorded as in Versailles (see F. Ingersoll-Smouse, Joseph Vernet: Peintre de Marine 1714-1789, Paris, 1926, p. 50, no. 194, 'Port de mer: effet de matin', Château de Versailles).