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The National Museum of Western Art, Tóquio, Japão
OST - 89x133 - 1773
Joseph Vernet was a representative French eighteenth-century
landscape painter. After returning home from twenty years in Italy, he
furthered his reputation for landscapes, especially seascapes. The bathers at
the riverside, seen here, are largely incidental to the main purpose of the
piece, which is to depict an Italianate landscape, albeit an imaginary one. It
is the evening of a summer's day. The painting is one of a series undertaken by
the artist capturing scenes at different hours of a single day, following a
tradition that went back to the seventeenth century.
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