Moonlight Scene (Primary Title)
Claude Joseph Vernet, French, 1714 - 1789 (Artist)
Vernet’s dramatic shipwreck and harbor scenes are forerunners to the Romantic landscape movement in their emphasis on and preoccupation with extremes of lighting and the awesome effects of nature.
Adolph D. and Wilkins C. Williams Fund
La Volupté du Goût: French Painting in the Age of Mme de Pompadour, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Tours, Tours, France, October 11, 2008 - January 12, 2009; Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR, February 7 - May 17, 2009
Perspectives on Romanticism, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA, April 29 -July 18, 1993
Art into Landscape, Artmobile, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA, September 1975 - December 1976
The Romantic Movement, City Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham, England, 1959
Perspectives on Romanticism, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA, April 29 -July 18, 1993
Art into Landscape, Artmobile, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA, September 1975 - December 1976
The Romantic Movement, City Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham, England, 1959
Collection of Mr. A.C.J. Wall, Birmingham, England; Estate of A.C.J. Wall; (Christie, Manson, & Woods, London) by 1970. [1] (H. Shickman Gallery, New York) by 1971; Purchased by Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VMFA), Richmond, Virginia in December of 1971. [2]
[1] Sold on November 27, 1970, lot no. 59. See the auction catalogue Fine Pictures by Old Masters (London: Christie, Manson, & Woods, 1970), 45.
[2] Accessioned December 29, 1971.
[1] Sold on November 27, 1970, lot no. 59. See the auction catalogue Fine Pictures by Old Masters (London: Christie, Manson, & Woods, 1970), 45.
[2] Accessioned December 29, 1971.
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