Claude-Joseph Vernet, 1767 - A Storm on a Mediterranean Coast - fine art print

Original description by The J. Paul Getty Museum (© - The J. Paul Getty Museum - www.getty.edu)

Claude-Joseph Vernet depicted a storm's aftermath: dark clouds above an angry sea, a shipwrecked boat and its anxious survivors, and listing ships in the distance. As the sea furiously beats against the shoreline, waves explode beyond the rocks in a froth of white. The motion of the waves, the distant rain shaft, the battered ship, and even the bodies of the fleeing castaways fill the scene with strong, opposing diagonal lines. The lighthouse standing solidly upright at the painting's center counters all of this activity.

The strong colors of the shipwrecked survivors' clothing stand out against the palette of greens, grays, and browns in the turbulent sea. Clearing skies cast the survivors in an eerie glow; dark tones at the left and lower edges and in the waves themselves draw further attention to the bright figures.

The scene as a whole suggests the powerful force of nature over man. Vernet's companion piece for this painting, A Calm at a Mediterranean Port, presents a sharply contrasting scene of a harbor in more placid weather.

Print product summarization

A Storm on a Mediterranean Coast is a painting by Claude-Joseph Vernet in 1767. Nowadays, this artwork is in the the The J. Paul Getty Museum's collection in Los Angeles, California, United States of America. We are delighted to reference that this public domain artwork is being provided with courtesy of The J. Paul Getty Museum.Furthermore, the work of art has the creditline: . Besides this, the alignment of the digital reproduction is landscape with a ratio of 4 : 3, which implies that the length is 33% longer than the width. The painter, printmaker Claude-Joseph Vernet was an artist, whose art style was mainly Rococo. The French painter was born in the year 1714 in Avignon, Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur, France and deceased at the age of 75 in 1789.

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