Landscape with Laundresses
ArtistWorkshop of
Claude-Joseph Vernet
(French, 1714 - 1789)
Datec. 1749
CultureFrench
MediumOil on canvas
ClassificationPaintings
Credit LineMuseum purchase, 1975
Object numberSN944
Vernet was a leading French landscape painter of the 18th century, and his work was avidly collected by French and British patrons. His twenty years in Rome gave him extensive knowledge of the Italian countryside, which he used to create imagined, idyllic landscapes like this one. Here, humanity exists in harmony with nature, with the carefully rendered light unifying the entire scene. Vernet sketched in oil outdoors, and was widely praised for his close observation of nature.
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On viewLocation
DimensionsImage: 31 1/2 x 45 in. (80 x 114.3 cm)- Museum of Art, Gallery 18, Wall South
Frame: 38 7/8 × 51 9/16 × 2 13/16 in. (98.8 × 130.9 × 7.2 cm)
Joseph Siffred Duplessis
18th Century
Joseph Siffred Duplessis
18th Century
last quarter of 1600s or first quarter of 1700s
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