ATTRIBUTED TO CLAUDE-JOSEPH VERNET (FRENCH 1714-1789)
Ships Tossed on a Stormy Sea,
oil on panel
51.4 x 82.9 cm (20 1/4 x 32 5/8 in.)
signed 'J. Vernet' lower right

PROVENANCE
Comte de La Beraudiere
His sale. Paris. Galerie Georges Petit, May 26, 1913, lot 29-30 (Le Calme and La Tempete, sold as a pair)
Important Old Master Paintings, New York, Sotheby`s, June 5, 2002, Lot 138
Important Old Master Paintings and European Works of Art, January 25, 2007, lot 355.

LITERATURE
Florence Ingersoll-Smouse, ‘Joseph Vernet’, (Paris 1926), vol. II, p. 97, cat. no. 2047, (the present painting illustrated as figure 327)

LOT NOTES
This painting is a smaller version of ‘Naufrage’, signed and dated 1772, in the collection of the Narodni Gallery, Prague (reproduced in Florence Ingersoll Smouse, op. cit., catalogue no. 962, fig, 242). The present lot is mistakenly listed in Ingersoll-Smouse as a pendant to cat. no. 1289, but is correctly a pendant to cat. no. 1381, reproduced figure 323, as a replica or copy of the Prague painting.