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The Shipwreck c1772 af den franske maler Claude-Joseph Vernet (1714 – 1789); kendt for at male, tegning og gravering i nyklassicistisk stil.
The shipwreck is one of several powerful paintings by Vernet showing the aftermath and tragedy beset on the passengers of a sailing vessel caught in the mist of a powerful sea storm as their ship is destroyed by powerful waves and the survivors struggle to get onto land.
The Shipwreck is a retouched digital art reproduction of a public domain image that is available online as a rullet print.
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Vernet was born in Avignon, and at the age of fourteen helped his father, Antoine Vernet (1689 – 1753), who was a skilled decorative painter, in the most important parts of his work.
I 1734, Vernet rejste til Rom for at studere landskabsdesignere og maritime malere, som fransk barokmaler, Tegner og etser Claude Gellee også kendt som Claude Lorrain (1600 – 1682); hvor mange af Vernets stykker minder om Lorrains arbejde.
I tyve år boede Vernet i Rom, og produceret udsigt over havne, storme, beroliger, måneskin, og store hvaler; bliver især populær blandt engelske aristokrater, hvoraf mange var på Grand Tour (en skik fra det 17. og 18. århundrede af en traditionel rejse gennem Europa, which was undertaken by upper-class young European men (about 21 års alder) of sufficient means and rank usually accompanied by a chaperone).
I 1753 Vernet was recalled to Paris; Og mens der er, by royal command, he executed the series of the seaports of France by which he is best known. I 1757, he painted a series of four paintings titled Four Times of the Day depicting, not surprisingly, four times of the day.
With a certain conventionality in design, proper to his day, Vernet allied the results of constant and honest observation of natural effects of atmosphere, which he rendered with unusual pictorial artistry.
Perhaps no painter of landscapes or sea-pieces has ever made the human figure so completely a part of the scene depicted or so important a factor in his design. In this respect he was heavily influenced by Giovanni Paolo Panini, whom he probably met and worked with in Rome.
Vernet’s work draws on natural themes, but in a way that is neither sentimental or emotive; as the overall effect of his style is wholly decorative. “Others may know better”, he said, with just pride, “how to paint the sky, the earth, the ocean; ingen ved bedre end jeg, hvordan man tegner et billede”.