Carle Vernet, “Shipwreck”, c.1822, after Joseph Vernet

Carle Vernet (aka Antoine Charles Horace Vernet) (1758–1836)

“Shipwreck”, c.1822 (date based on the printer’s date of activity at Rue Cassette; the British Museum proposes the dates 1785–1836) after the painting by the artist’s father Joseph Vernet (aka Claude Joseph Vernet) (1714–1789) exhibited at the Salon in 1785, printed in Paris by J. Chabert (fl.c.1822–1834). Note that the British Museum holds an impression printed by Villain (aka Ch Villain; François le Villain) (fl.1822–1852) (see https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1869-0410-2060 [no image]).

Lithograph on wove paper trimmed with a narrow margin around the image borderline and backed with a support sheet providing wide margins.

Size: (sheet) 22.3 x 34.7 cm; (image borderline) 20.1 x 33.5 cm.

Lettered in plate below the image borderline: (left) “Imp. lith. de Chabert, rue Cassette, N^o. 20.”; (centre) “carle Vernet dapres Joseph Vernet.”

Condition: a strong and well-printed impression, trimmed with a small margin around the image borderline and laid upon an archival support sheet of millennium quality washi paper providing wide margins. The sheet is in a good condition with no tears, folds or significant stains.

I am selling this panoramic view of a shipwreck—sadly the portrayed event, to my  mind, parallels the artist’s own life as, according to the “Art Journal” for 1876, vol. 2, p. 188, his mother “possessed a bizarre, fanciful temperament, which developed into insanity”, his sister “perished during the Terror on the scaffold” and after his personal disappointment after falling “in love with a pair of magnificent eyes” dressed himself “in a monk's habit” and “threw himself in a cloister” (see https://archive.org/details/artjournal187600/page/188/mode/2up)— for AU $228 (currently US $141.41/ EUR 142.03/ GBP 113.94 at the time of posting this print) including Express Mail (EMS) postage and handling to anywhere in the world, but not (of course) any import duties/taxes imposed by some countries. Note that payment is in Australian dollars (AU $228) as this is my currency.

If you are interested in purchasing this marvellous lithograph that is interesting to compare with similar scenes of shipwrecks that I have shown previously by artists like Adrien Manglard (1695–1760) (see https://www.printsandprinciples.com/2024/08/adrien-manglard-shipwreck-c1750.html) and Claude Lorrain (1600–1682) (see https://www.printsandprinciples.com/2021/10/claude-lorrains-etching-le-naufrage.html), please contact me (oz_jim@printsandprinciples.com) and I will send you a PayPal invoice to make the payment easy.