Four Times of the Day (Joseph Vernet)

Portrait of Joseph Vernet (1714–1789), French painter

Four Times of the Day is a series of four paintings[1][2][3][4] depicting four times of the day: Morning, Midday, Evening and Night by the French landscape painter Claude Joseph Vernet (1714–1789), held by the Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide. These paintings are part of a series of painting illustrating the themes of morning, midday, evening and night that the artist painted in the year 1757.

Artist

Joseph Vernet was considered the leading French artist of his time in his genre, marine art and landscape painting. Claude Joseph Vernet come from a family of French painters: he was the son of a decorative painter, and his son Antoine-Charles-Horace Vernet, called Carle Vernet (1758–1836), and his grandson Horace Vernet (1789–1863) were known as military painters. Vernet lived in Italy for twenty years, from 1734 to 1753, where he had an atelier in Rome. His style was influenced by the Italian 17th-century painters Claude Lorrain and Salvator Rosa. His landscapes and especially seascapes were celebrated for their romantic qualities. Upon his return to France, a series of marine paintings were commissioned from him around 1753 by the French king Louis XV to depict a series of seaports, of which fifteen paintings were executed. This project lasted for about ten years, and until 1765 he traveled around the country painting seascapes around France, eventually abandoning the project unfinished.[5][6][7]

Paintings

In the series of four paintings, the first depiction is entitled Morning. The painting shows a misty morning scene with fishermen with his boat. The second painting, entitled Midday depicts a sudden, unexpected storm. The painting Evening shows women bathing and washing their clothes. The final scene shows a rocky inlet, with fishermen drying their nets while others are gathered round a fire. The scenes depicted in these four paintings were Vernet's favourite scenes that he painted in different settings throughout his career.[8][9]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Morning". www.artgallery.sa.gov.au. Retrieved 2015.
  2. ↑ "Midday". www.artgallery.sa.gov.au. Retrieved 2015.
  3. ↑ "Evening". www.artgallery.sa.gov.au. Retrieved 2015.
  4. ↑ "Night". www.artgallery.sa.gov.au. Retrieved 2015.
  5. ↑ "Biography and Works, Joseph Vernet". www.museothyssen.org. Retrieved 2015.
  6. ↑ "Encyclopedia Britannica, Joseph Vernet". www.archive.org. Retrieved 2015.
  7. ↑ "making_nature". arthistory.about.com. Retrieved 2015.
  8. ↑ "Claude Joseph Vernet". www.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 2015.
  9. ↑ "National Trust Collections, Vernet". www.nationaltrustcollections.org.uk. Retrieved 2015.

Public Domain This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Vernet". Encyclopædia Britannica 27 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 1030. 

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