A Seaport at Sunset
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Artist | Claude-Joseph Vernet |
Year | 1749 |
Medium | oil on canvas |
Dimensions | 114 cm × 164.1 cm (45 in × 64.6 in) |
Location | Timken Museum of Art, San Diego |
A Seaport at Sunset is a 1749 oil painting on canvas by the French artist Claude-Joseph Vernet. It depicts a sea port, and presumably a war scene. A lightouse is visible, at the center right, while several people are on land, and a number of ships on sea, engaged on combat, with cannons smoke visible, are at the left. It is held at the Timken Museum of Art, in San Diego.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ "Collection: A Seaport at Sunset". Timken Museum of Art. Archived from the original on September 22, 2020. Retrieved August 17, 2020.