A Landscape at Sunset

A Landscape at Sunset
A Landscape at Sunset
Artist	Claude-Joseph Vernet
Year	1773
Type	Oil on canvas, landscape painting
Dimensions	114.5 cm × 163.5 cm (45.1 in × 64.4 in)
Location	National Gallery, London

Year1773

Dimensions114.5 cm × 163.5 cm (45.1 in × 64.4 in)

A Landscape at Sunset is a 1773 landscape painting by the French artist Joseph Vernet.^[1]^[2] It portrays a view of a harbour bathed in sunshine on a summer's day with fisherman bringing on their catch.

It was commissioned by King of Poland, Stanisław August Poniatowski as one of a pair of landscapes along with A Shipwreck in Stormy Seas. After the deal fell through, the paintings were instead bought by the British general Clive of India. Both are now in the collection of the National Gallery in London.^[3]

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Paintings	Charles of Bourbon Hunting Coots on Lake Licola (1746) A Seaport at Sunset (1749) A Sporting Contest on the Tiber (1750) A River with Fishermen (1751) Interior of the Port of Marseille (1754) A Storm with a Shipwreck (1754) View of Avignon from the Right Bank of the Rhone (1757) View of Rochefort Harbour from the Magasin des Colonies (1762) Coast Scene with a British Man of War (1766) Port of Palermo by Moonlight (1769) A Mediterranean Port (1771) Seaport by Moonlight (1771) The Shipwreck (1772) A Landscape at Sunset (1773) A Shipwreck in Stormy Seas (1773) The Approach to a Fair (1774) Constructing a Main Road (1774)
Painting series	Four Times of the Day (1757) Views of the Ports of France (1754–1765)
Related	Bernardino Fergioni (master) Adrien Manglard (master) Giovanni Paolo Panini (major influence) Carle Vernet (son) Horace Vernet (grandson) Portrait of Joseph Vernet (1778 painting) Joseph Vernet Tied to a Mast During a Storm (1822 painting)

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