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CLAUDE-JOSEPH VERNET (AVIGNON 1714-1789 PARIS)
Lot 103 Property from the Holdings of the Ford Foundation

CLAUDE-JOSEPH VERNET (AVIGNON 1714-1789 PARIS)

View of the Temple of Venus at Baiae

Closed24 January 2017

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CLAUDE-JOSEPH VERNET (AVIGNON 1714-1789 PARIS)
View of the Temple of Venus at Baiae
inscribed 'temple de diana a pousoles'
black chalk, pen and black ink, brown and grey wash, watermark crowned coat of arms with fleur-de-lys and 'C & J HONIG'
12 5/8 x 20 1/8 in. (32 x 51.1 cm.)

From an album probably compiled in Vienna in the early 19th Century.
Antoine-Augustin Renouard, Paris, 20 November 1854, part of lot 628 (to Pottier, antiquarian bookseller).
Anonymous sale; Blache, Versailles, 13 March 1966, lot 165.
with Knoedler Gallery, New York, where acquired by the Ford Foundation in November 1966.

Specialist note

In the inscription, Vernet mistakenly identifies the temple as that dedicated to Diana, also at Baia. A closely related view of the same temple is at the Albertina (inv. 22807).