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Evening

Artist Claude-Joseph Vernet French, 1714-1789

Date1753

DimensionsH: 39 1/4 in. (99.7 cm); W: 54 in. (137.2 cm)

MediumOil on canvas.

ClassificationPaintings

Credit LinePurchased with funds from the Libbey Endowment, Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1951.499

On View

Toledo Museum of Art (2445 Monroe Street), Gallery, 27

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Published ReferencesLagrange, L., Joseph Vernet et la peinture au XVIIIe siècle, Paris, 1864, p. 335, no. C. 129.

Ingersoll-Smouse, F., Joseph Vernet, Paris, 1926, I, nos. 385-389 (TMA 51.499 is one of these; Howard in error called 'Lord Stafford').

Griguat, Paul L., "Baroque and Rococo France in Toledo," Art Quarterly, vol. 19, no. 1, Spring 1956, p. 53.

London, Greater London Council (Kenwood), Claude-Joseph Vernet, (exh. cat. by P. Conisbee), 1976, introd. n. 35, and in no. 49. (These citations are omitted in the catalogue of the Paris version of this exhibition, Musèe de la Marine, 1976; however this catalogue has useful color plates not in the London one.)

Toledo Museum of Art, The Toledo Museum of Art, European Paintings, Toledo, 1976, pp. 163-164, pl. 205.

Claude-Joseph Vernet, 1714-1789, London, Iveagh Bequest, Kenwood, 1976, note to introduction n. 35, no. 49 (not in exhibition).

[Advertisement] Connaissance des Arts no. 429, Nov. 1987, p. 30.

Importants dessin et tableaux anciens, Paris, Ader Picard Tajan, sale Nov. 22, 1987, p. 66.

"French Art 1600-1800," Toledo Museum of Art Museum News, vol. 3, no. 4, Autumn 1960, p. 92, repr.

Rosenberg, Pierre, La peinture française, Paris, Mengés, 2001, vol. 1, p. 479.

Duncan, Sally Anne, Otto Wittmann: Museum Man for All Seasons, Toledo, 2001, p. 23.

Exhibition HistoryToledo Museum of Art, The Age of Louis XV, 1975, no. 111, repr. (cat. by P. Rosenberg; French edition (National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, 1976) corrects the Ingersoll-Smouse reference and clarifies provenance).Label TextEvening is one of five paintings ordered from Claude-Joseph Vernet by Irish nobleman Ralph Howard (died 1786) while he was in Rome on the Grand Tour. Four of the paintings were marine scenes showing the different times of day, a favorite theme of Vernet’s. Vernet’s account book describes the pictures for Howard as “représentant des marines avec sujects differents à ma fantaisie” (“representing marines with different subjects from my imagination”). His description emphasizes the imaginary qualities of Evening, which was generally inspired by the coast of the Gulf of Naples.