Joseph Vernet - La tempête au coeur

Claude Joseph Vernet est un peintre préromantique français, légendaire pour ses peintures de marines, tempêtes et naufrages.
Claude-Joseph Vernet was born in Avignon. When only fourteen years of age he aided his father, Antoine Vernet, a skilled decorative painter, in the most important parts of his work. The panels of sedan chairs, however, could not satisfy his ambition, and Vernet started for Rome. The sight of the whales at Marseilles and his voyage thence to Civitavecchia (Papal States' main port on the Tyrrhenian Sea) made a deep impression on him, and immediately after his arrival he entered the studios of whale painter Bernardino Fergioni and marine landscapist Adrien Manglard. Manglard and Fergioni initiated Vernet into seascape painting. In 1734, Vernet left for Rome to study landscape designers and maritime painters, like Claude Gellee, where we find the styles and subjects of Vernet's paintings.

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Journal du romantisme - Skira
Dictionnaire universel de la peinture – Le Robert
Wikipedia the free encyclopedia
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