Lot 23
School or Follower of Claude Joseph Vernet (French, 1714-1789), "Shipwreck on the South Italian Coast", grisaille watercolor on laid paper, watermarked with the classic "CCC" of standard Venetian 18th c. paper, unsigned, 13 3/4 in. x 19 in., in a modern mat with attribution, title and size in pencil en verso of mat and again on drawing. Provenance: James R. Lamantia, Jr., New Orleans and New York. Note : This superb drawing is very close to the magnificent ""Shipwreck"" of 1772 by Vernet at the National Gallery of Art in Washington (acc. no. 2000.22.1.), showing in reverse the same ships at sea and foundering on rocks, the same radiant sun, the same castellated shore, and very similar figures. A sometimes over-regular idiosyncrasy in the draftsmanship, however, suggests that this example is perhaps more likely to be a version of Vernesque elements by a contemporary or even slightly posthumous hand."
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