A Shipwreck

A ShipwreckVernet was best known to his contemporaries for his realistic and often stormy marine paintings that captured the natural world realistically on canvas, while suggesting a divine presence through the use of dramatic lighting, ravaged landscape, and atmospheric effects. His works were much imitated and especially sought after by British collectors in the 18th and 19th century.

built in 1724 and destroyed when Napoleon overthrew the Venetian Republic

contrasting with the shady browns in the remainder of the picture

and Nobility on the right

to his role as intercessor in difficult births

The composifion seems to derive from the 'Christ carrying the Cross' by Titian or Giorgione in the Scuola di San Rocco

The church is loosely based on the Cathedral of Notre-Dame in Antwerp

a Dutch Fast Indiaman

Until 1880 catalogued as a portrait by Rubens of his mother

one added by Bourgeois (now removed)

acquired c

Duke of Savoy

the attribution to Lefebvre was proposed by Boyer