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Description: | Signed: yes Description: Vernet was famous for his marine paintings. Like this one, most were coastal views looking out to a sea adorned with sailing ships from a foreground animated with figures. He was skilled in combining the neo-classical tenets of academic painting with the observation of natural reality. Here, for example, the composition appears formal yet the detail in the trees and rocks is quite naturalistic. At first the nude bathers appear nymph-like, but by the remnants of their clothes we see they are contemporary eighteenth-century women. In the background too, are eighteenth-century sailing ships and the walls of a port. | Subjects: | landscape; figure; marine | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Vernet, Claude-Joseph (French painter and draftsman, 1714-1789) Æ | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=9026... | Go to resource |
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