[Sidenote:
_Wool and Silk._
H. 8 _ft._ 10 _in._
W. 6 _ft._ 6 _in._
]
AU BORD DU MER: _In an oval panel are peasants landing from a rowboat. In
the harbor under a cliff is a sailing vessel. In an encadrement of red and
blue flowers and ribbons on a gray ground._
[Sidenote: Formerly in the Vaffrin Collection, Bordeaux.]
The central panel is after Vernet, who was particularly famous for his
port scenes. The encadrement is unusually rich and delicate.
[Sidenote: Lent by _Wildenstein & Company_.]
Claude-Joseph Vernet (1714-1789) first studied under his father as
a decorative painter of wall and furniture panels. Afterward he
studied under Bernardino Fergiori in Rome to be a marine painter. In
1735 he was received by the Academy. His most famous paintings, of
the seaports of France, are in the Louvre.
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