Claude Joseph Vernet
Claude Joseph Vernet [ veʀnɛ ] ( born August 14, 1714 Avignon, † December 3, 1789 in Paris) was a French painter who was famous for its views of French ports.
Life
Claude Joseph Vernet was the son of the decorative painter Antoine Vernet, from which he also received his first art lessons. Through the mediation of his father Vernet later became a pupil of the painter Louis René de Vialy in Aix -en- Provence. There was the Marquis de Caudon, Joseph de Seytres, noticed him and supported him with a generous scholarship. Thus, Vernet could go in 1734 with twenty years after Rome and learn some time in the Marine painters Bernardino Fergioni and Adrien Maglard. Vernet in 1743 became a full member of the Accademia di San Luca.
Two years later in Rome Vernet married an Englishwoman Virginia Parker, a captain of the Papal Navy's daughter. Through the mediation of the Marquis de Marigny, the Director of the Bâtiments du Roi, summoned the French King Louis XV. Vernet in 1753 to the French court. Vernet was to paint the main ports of France and represent with these 24 views, " the naval power France ". Vernet was a member of the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture in Paris and worked almost exclusively on the royal commission. By 1763 he had completed 15 paintings. In that year he settled in Paris and now also created works again for other members of the French nobility.
Vernet's daughter Émilie Marguerite married the architect Jean -François Chalgrin. His son, Antoine Charles Horace Vernet Horace Vernet and his grandson were also painters. He was a member of the Paris Masonic Lodge Les Neufs Sœurs. At the age of almost 75 years, the painter Claude Joseph Vernet died on December 3, 1789 in Paris.
Work
The large-format images of all French military and commercial ports have been created according to a precisely predetermined itinerary as topography of the Kingdom, where the major ports are represented by two or three different views. Marigny understood the project as a didactic presentation and historical documentation. Should be shown the various trading activities and due to the local geography forms of shipping. Vernet developed for a new, panorama -like representation with a low horizon and far sky. Numerous images invigorating decorative figures are not new. However, networking is the people at work, in trade and capital turnover.
Vernet's seascapes have often storm and shipwreck scenes the subject. These convey the experience of the sublime, the overwhelming associated with terror by the forces of nature. In order to gain this experience itself, the painter has had to tie in a storm at sea to the mast of a ship.
Coastal Scene
Selections
- Shipwrecked on a rocky coast
- Women Bathing in the morning, 1772, canvas, 98 × 162 cm.
- View of the park of the Villa Ludovisi, Rome, 1749, canvas, 75 x 100 cm.
- View in the park of Villa Pamphily, 1749, canvas, 74 × 98 cm.
- The port of Livorno in a storm, 1748, canvas, 101 × 138 cm.
- The annual fair of Beaucaire, 1774, canvas, 97 × 112 cm.
- The paper dragon, 1782, canvas, 155 × 34 cm.
- The ports of France: Bayonne I, 1760, canvas, 165 × 263 cm.
- The ports of France: Bayonne II, 1760, canvas, 165 × 263 cm.