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Description: | With reference to the paintings of Claude-Joseph Vernet, a very successful eighteenth-century landscape and seascape artist, the painter of this work has depicted a real or imaginary view from a Mediterranean shore. In the foreground, a young mother sits with her little girl near a large rock. From this vantage point they can watch their menfolk fish in the sea. A boat, presumably theirs, is moored nearby, its sailed tightly furled. In the middle ground, the painter has shown another boat which has just come ashore, with a skip being rowed alongside to take its catch onto land. Out to sea, other ships can be glimpsed. The painter has taken care to add a sense of drama by including a large, lowering grey cloud which threatens to ruin the tranquillity of the scene. | Subjects: | marine | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Vernet, Claude-Joseph (French painter and draftsman, 1714-1789) Æ Attributed to manner of | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8545... | Go to resource |
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