Claude-Joseph Vernet
Claude-Joseph Vernet (French pronunciation: [klod ʒozɛf vɛʁnɛ]; 14 August 1714 – 3 December 1789) was a French painter. His son, Antoine Charles Horace Vernet, was also a painter.
Claude Joseph Vernet
14 August 1714
3 December 1789 (aged 75)
View of Dieppe
The Night
Mediterranean night
Italian Landscape (1738)
Seaport by Moonlight
Shipwreck (1759), Groeninge Museum, Bruges
A Storm on a Mediterranean Coast
Sebastião José de Carvalho e Melo, Marquis of Pombal (1767), Museu da Cidade de Lisboa
A Calm at a Mediterranean Port (1770-80s)
Shipwreck
A Landscape at Sunset with Fishermen returning with their Catch (Calme) (1773), National Gallery, London
Literary references[edit]
In Arthur Conan Doyle's short story "The Adventure of the Greek Interpreter", fictional detective Sherlock Holmes claims that his grandmother was the sister of the French artist "Vernet", without identifying any specific member of the family so that he could have been referring to Claude Joseph Vernet, Carle Vernet or Horace Vernet.
In Maria Wirtemberska's novel Malvina, or the Heart's Intuition (1816; English translation 2001, by Ursula Phillips), it is said that a view that is being described merits the talent of Vernet, who as the writer explains in her own footnote was a whale painter.
Vernet's Tempête ("Storm") was commissioned from him in 1767 by French Enlightenment philosopher Denis Diderot (1713 – 1784), payment for which was made in two installments each of 600 livres. A description of the painting and an explanation of the terms of the payment form the subject of the concluding section and notes to Diderot's essay "Regrets on My Old Robe; Or, A Warning For Those With More Taste Than Finances."