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Claude Joseph
Vernet, Trees Reflected in a Brook, unknown date, National
Gallery of Art, Washington, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund 1984.78.1 |
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Born
in 1714 in Avignon, France, Vernet came from a family of artists. His father,
a minor decorative painter, gave Vernet his first lessons in drawing; Vernet
later worked with a master painter in Avignon. In private collections there
and in nearby Aix-en-Provence, Vernet would likely have studied works attributed
to seventeenth-century masters Claude
Lorrain, Salvator Rosa, and Gaspard Dughet.
 
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