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Keywords: Claude-Joseph Vernet - Landscape with Waterfall and Figures - Walters 372411.jpg Walters Art Museum artwork Q18749461 Creator Joseph Vernet Landscape with Waterfall and Figures At the age of twenty Vernet left his native Avignon for a lengthy stay in Rome where he devloped a style of idealized landscape painting derived from the 17th-century classical traditions of Claude Lorrain and Salvator Rosa Not until 1762 did he settle in Paris metting with success there painting marine scenes and picturesque views that recalled his Italian sojourn as well as reflected a debt to Dutch landscape painting His work was admired by wide international clientele Scenes with cascades of waterfalls loosely based on the famous Italian sites of Tivoli and Terni were painted by Vernet throughout his career and several are recorded for the year 1768 This handsome painting was commissioned for an 18th-century country house located in Danson Park England that was designed by the architect Robert Taylor for the English merchant John Boyd in 1766 Vernet was the leading landscape painter of the 18th century His idealized compositions loosely inspired by the Italian countryside were much prized as souvenirs of the so-called Grand Tour of Italy made by the elite to acquire cultural sophistication In this landscape Vernet evokes the feel of the Italian countryside which he has adorned with picturesque ruins and lively figures without actually re-creating any specific time or place This work combines all the typical elements of Vernet's ideal views As tourists gawk at the waterfall picturesque peasants go about their business The perfectly calculated balance between the large tree the harsh rocky face of the cliff and the sun-drenched vista beyond the aqueduct evokes the notion of the sublime which figured so prominently into the 18th century 1768 Oil on canvas cm 176 2 135 2 ; framed cm 190 5 148 6 5 7 accession number 37 2411 13693 John Boyd 1718-1800 Danson December 1766 by commission The Ehrich Galleries New York 1929-31 Juliet Anne Scott Pierson d 1964 Greenwich CT date and mode of acquisition unknown Victor Sparks New York date and mode of acquisition unknown Walters Art Museum 1964 by purchase Museum purchase 1964 Signed and dated lower right J Vernet 1768 Maryland Heritage European Art at the Time of the Revolution The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1976 Going for Baroque The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1995-1996 Vive la France French Treasures from the Middle Ages to Monet The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1999-2000 Landscape Painting Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art Hartford 1931 place of origin Paris France Walters Art Museum license 2D Danson Park Paintings by Joseph Vernet French paintings in the Walters Art Museum Cliffs in art 1760s paintings from France Oil paintings of waterfalls 1768 oil on canvas paintings in the United States Paintings of people in nature Vive la France French Treasures from the Middle Ages to Monet
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