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Claude-Joseph Vernet, the leading French landscape and marine painter of the later eighteenth century, lived in Rome as a young man. Vernet's notebooks record that his clients there included French dignitaries and travellers on the Grand Tour. In 1746 the French ambassador Frédéric-Jérôme de la Rochefoucauld de Roye commissioned Vernet to paint this scene and its pendant, which contrast evening calm and morning storm. Here the Temple of Minerva Medica, Rome, is fancifully set on a coast which recalls the Bay of Baia near Naples. Analysis has shown that Vernet changed the positions of the lighthouse and the sun as he worked.

Bristol Museum & Art Gallery

Bristol

Title

Genoa Lighthouse and the Temple of Minerva Medica

Date

1746

Medium

oil on canvas

Measurements

H 97.5 x W 123 cm

Accession number

K4012

Acquisition method

purchased, 1969

Work type

Painting

Bristol Museum & Art Gallery

Queens Road, Bristol, Bristol BS8 1RL England

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Artist or maker

Claude-Joseph Vernet

1714–1789

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