Soldiers in a Mountain Gorge, with a Storm

Claude Joseph Vernet French, 1714-1789
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Era of Revolution, Level 3, South Wing

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Soldiers in a Mountain Gorge, with a Storm

1789

Claude Joseph Vernet

1714-1789

French

Unknown

Oil on canvas

Unframed: 63 × 43 5/16 inches (160 × 110 cm) Framed: 69 1/2 × 50 1/8 × 3 9/16 inches (176.5 × 127.3 × 9 cm)

Paintings

European Painting

Founders Society Purchase; gifts from Dr. and Mrs. Edwin S. Smyd and Mr. and Mrs. Lee Hill by exchange

2001.7

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Signed and dated, lower right, on rock: J Vernet | f 1789.

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Provenance

the artist, Claude Joseph Vernet

April 20, 1790, artist's estate sale (Paris, France) no. 14

March 17, 1879, Dr. Cruvellier sale (Paris, France) no. 47

private collection (Paris, France)

October 1986-2001, (Matthiesen Gallery, London, England)

2001-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Salon. Exh. cat. Paris, 1789, no. 28.

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Claude Joseph Vernet, Soldiers in a Mountain Gorge, with a Storm, 1789, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase; gifts from Dr. and Mrs. Edwin S. Smyd and Mr. and Mrs. Lee Hill by exchange, 2001.7.

Soldiers in a Mountain Gorge, with a Storm
Soldiers in a Mountain Gorge, with a Storm