The Shipwreck, 18th century

  • Claude Joseph Vernet, French, 1714-1789

Oil on canvas

  • Unframed: 27 1/4 × 39 3/4 inches (69.2 × 101 cm)
  • 34 3/8 × 46 3/8 × 2 3/8 inches (87.3 × 117.8 × 6 cm)

Gift of Edwin F. Conely

96.3

collection of Edwin F. Conely (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

1896-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Claude Joseph Vernet, The Shipwreck, 18th century, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Edwin F. Conely, 96.3.