 | A Storm on a Mediterranean Coast |
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Date : 1767
Material : Oil on canvas
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European Painting
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France
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The most famous landscape and marine painter of eighteenth-century France, Vernet excelled in the atmospheric depiction of imaginary Mediterranean locations. In "A Storm", an English merchant vessel battles raging seas, while the exhausted, anguished survivors of a shipwreck are rescued. A diligent student of nature, Vernet rendered the elemental drama using a naturalistic palette dominated by greens, grays, and browns, applied in lively, sophisticated strokes. The companion to this picture, "A Calm", hangs nearby. | More pictures | |
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