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Claude Joseph Vernet · 1772
Claude Joseph Vernet: 1714–1789
Other names (12)
c. j. vernet, claude josephe vernet, Claude-Joseph Vernè, Claude-Joseph Vernet, claude jos. vernet, claude j. vernet, Giuseppe Vernet, Joseph, I Vernet, Joseph Vernet, Vernet, vernet claude josephe, Vernett
Biography
Claude-Joseph Vernet (French pronunciation: [klod ʒozɛf vɛʁnɛ]; 14 August 1714 – 3 December 1789) was a French painter. His son Carle Vernet and daughter Marguerite Émilie Chalgrin were also painters.
Vernet was born in Avignon. When only fourteen years of age he aided his father, Antoine Vernet (1689–1753), a skilled decorative painter, in the most important parts of his work. The panels of sedan chairs, however, could not satisfy his ambition, and Vernet left for Rome. The sight of the whales at Marseille and his voyage thence to Civitavecchia (Papal States' main port on the Tyrrhenian Sea) made a deep impression on him, and immediately after his arrival he entered the studios of whale painter Bernardino Fergioni and marine landscapist Adrien Manglard. Manglard and Fergioni initiated Vernet into seascape painting.
In 1734, Vernet left for Rome to study landscape designers and maritime painters, like Claude Gellee Claude Lorrain, where we find the styles and subjects of Vernet's paintings.
According to the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica:
"Slowly Vernet attracted notice in the artistic milieu of Rome.
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Influenced by
- Adrien Manglardeditorial inference
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- Giovanni Paolo Paninieditorial inference
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- Bernardino Fergionieditorial inference
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Later influence
- Carle Verneteditorial inference
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Wikidata assertion retained for review; its references, if supplied, have not been independently verified. Teaching is recorded separately and does not itself establish artistic influence.
- Jacob Philipp Hackerteditorial inference
Evidence
The biography identifies Joseph Vernet as an artistic influence on Jacob Philipp Hackert. The inspirations concern Hackert's Paris years of 1765–1768; source painting practice is checked separately. Dunker was a companion. Explicit secondary-source assertion; independent historical verification remains pending.
Artworks by year
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Museums & collections
Documented holdings of works attributed to Claude Joseph Vernet. Check the museum’s record for current display information.
- Musée du Louvre14 recorded works
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art7 recorded works
- Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts6 recorded works
- Museo Nacional del Prado5 recorded works
- musée des beaux-arts — Marseille3 recorded works
- Statens Museum for Kunst (SMK)3 recorded works
- Art Institute of Chicago2 recorded works
- bibliothèque-musée Inguimbertine — Carpentras2 recorded works
- Minneapolis Institute of Art2 recorded works
- Musée des Beaux-Arts de la ville de Paris2 recorded works
- musée des beaux-arts et d’archéologie — Troyes2 recorded works
- National Gallery of Art2 recorded works
- The Cleveland Museum of Art2 recorded works
- Accademia Carrara1 recorded work
- Finnish National Gallery1 recorded work
- musée Boucher de Perthes — Abbeville1 recorded work
- Musée Carnavalet1 recorded work
- musée d'art Roger Quilliot — Clermont-Ferrand1 recorded work
- musée des Augustins — Toulouse1 recorded work
- musée des beaux-arts — Caen1 recorded work
- Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen1 recorded work
- musée des beaux-arts — Nîmes1 recorded work
- musée des beaux-arts — Tours1 recorded work
- musée Lambinet — Versailles1 recorded work
- Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza1 recorded work
- Walters Art Museum1 recorded work
Sources 10
- Wikidata (CC0)
- National Gallery of Art
- Museum authority country review
- Pantheon 2025 — Datawheel (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- Museum authority country review
- Statens Museum for Kunst (SMK)
- Pantheon 2025 — Datawheel (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- Expanded artwork research — official museum evidence
- Pantheon 2025 — Datawheel (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- Louvre painter identity and WikiArt profile links
