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La Tempête
The Storm
La Tempête
German
1788
Medium/Technique
Etching and aquatint, printed in brown
Dimensions
Platemark: 45 x 64 cm (17 11/16 x 25 3/16 in.)
Sheet: 51.5 x 67.8 cm (20 1/4 x 26 11/16 in.)
Sheet: 51.5 x 67.8 cm (20 1/4 x 26 11/16 in.)
Credit Line
Katherine E. Bullard Fund in memory of Francis Bullard
Accession Number2016.245
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Nagler 7; Heller/Andresen 6; Huber/Rost 3; Meusel ´Teutsches Künstlerlexikon´(1809), II., p. 276; Meusel "Museum für Künstler und für Kunstliebhaber" (1790), X, p. 362-364.
DescriptionMounted on original, engraved backing sheet
Signed
In plate, on rock at center left: J. Vernet p. / A. Schlicht f.
InscriptionsOn backing sheet: Das Original von Jospeh Vernet ist in der Kurfürstlichen Gallerie zu Mannheim / Gestochen und herausgegeben von A. Schlicht Kurtfälzischer Hofbaumeister 1788
ProvenanceSeptember 7, 2014, sold by Guido Huster, Bissendorf, Germany, on eBay (eBay name dei-consentes; item #111376149461). By about 2015, sold from a private collection, Munich, to Nicolaas Teeuwisse (dealer), Berlin; 2016, sold by Teeuwisse to the MFA. (Accession Date: June 22, 2016)