Claude Joseph Vernet

(1714–1789) fransk målare

Claude Joseph Vernet (1714–1789) is listed in the catalogue as a painter. By year of birth, Claude Joseph Vernet belongs to the chapter ‘Rococo’ in this site’s history of art.

Claude Joseph Vernet was born in Avignon and died in Paris. The teachers included Adrien Manglard and Bernardino Fergioni. Claude Joseph Vernet worked in Roman Italy. Claude Joseph Vernet became a member of Académie des belles-lettres, sciences et arts de La Rochelle and Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture. The students included Carle Vernet, Jean-Pierre Péquignot, Jean-Antoine Vernet, and Henry d'Arles.

One of the best-known works is ‘The Cascade at Tivoli’. The works belong mainly to the genres landscape painting and marine painting. The catalogue has 204 works by Claude Joseph Vernet with free images. The dated works span the years 1734–1848. Works by Claude Joseph Vernet are held by several collections, among them Collections of Musée national de la Marine de Paris, Département des peintures du Louvre, Department of Paintings of the Louvre, and National Gallery of Art. Wikidata links one work to a movement covered in the chapter ‘Romanticism’.

Contemporary artists in the same chapter include Richard Wilson, Anna Rosina de Gasc, Anna Maria Hilfeling, Allan Ramsay, and James Stuart.

• Rococo
• Entrance to the Port of Palermo by Moonlight