LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

64.02 in. (162.60 cm.) (height) by 102.76 in. (261.00 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed and dated lower left: J Vernet f./1776

Exhibited:

Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada, The Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Exhibition of Art Treasures, Art in Dispute, 1 July 2005-5 March 2006.

Literature:

J. Young, A Catalogue of the Pictures at Grosvenor House, London 1820, p. 42; L. Lagrange, Joseph Vernet et la peinture au XVIIIe siecle, Paris 1864, pp. 351-52, no. 263 and p. 369, nos. 183, 185 and 190; F. Ingersoll-Smouse, Joseph Vernet, Peintre de Marine, Paris 1926, vol. II, pp. 26-7, cat. no. 990-1; I. G. Lumsden, C. J. Collins, L. Glenn, The Beaverbrook Art Gallery Collection: Selected Works, Fredericton 2000, p. 38, reproduced in color, p. 57; S. Donovan, ed., The Nashwaak Review, vol. 16/17, 2006, no. 1, reproduced in color on back cover.

Provenance:

Commissioned from the artist by William (Fitzmaurice) Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne, later 1st Marquess of Lansdowne (1737-1805), on 21 October 1774; His deceased sale, Lansdowne House, Berkeley Square, London, 19-20 March 1806, lot 40, to Robert, Earl Grosvenor, for 185 guineas; Robert, 2nd Earl Grosvenor, later 1st Marquess of Westminster (1767-1845); Thence by family descent to Hugh Lupus Grosvenor, 3rd Marquess of Westminster, later 1st Duke of Westminster (1825-1899); Thence by family descent to William Grosvenor, 3rd Duke of Westminster (1894-1963); By whom sold, London, Sotheby's, 24 June 1959, lot 18 (as A View of the Port of Genoa, with figures on the quay and shipping in the harbour), to Agnew, for £4,000; With Thomas Agnew & Sons, London; Acquired by Max Aitken, 1st Lord Beaverbrook (1879-1964) in 1962, and thence to the present ownership.