The Castel Nuovo in Naples, with a View of Mount Vesuvius

ca. 1737–53

Dating: Approximate date range
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown and gray wash, over black chalk
Dimensions: 13 1/8 x 19 7/16 in. (33.4 x 49.4 cm)
Collection no.: 1976.334.1
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

Claude Joseph Vernet. The Castel Nuovo in Naples, with a View of Mount Vesuvius. Claude Joseph Vernet; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Harry G. Sperling Fund, 1976. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.

Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

About this artwork

The Castel Nuovo in Naples, with a View of Mount Vesuvius — Claude Joseph Vernet. ca. 1737–53.

Medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown and gray wash, over black chalk. Dimensions: 13 1/8 x 19 7/16 in. (33.4 x 49.4 cm).

Collection record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.

Credit line: Harry G. Sperling Fund, 1976.

This is a museum catalogue record, not a current-display assertion.

Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.

Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.

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