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Summer Evening, Landscape in Italy
| Date | 1773 |
|---|---|
| Materials and Techniques | oil on canvas |
| Size（cm） | 89 x 133 |
| Inscriptions | Signed and dated lower left: J. Vernet. 1773 |
| Credit Line | Purchased |
| Standard ref. | Ingersoll-Smouse 973 |
| Category | Paintings |
| Collection Number | P.1988-0002 |
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. (Source: Gallery label, July 2016)
Provenance
Lespinasse d'Artel; Auc. Lespinasse d'Artel, July 11, 1803, no. 248; De Preuil (According to the catalogue of the Auc. Boisgerard); Boisgerard; Auc. Boisgerard, Paris, March 6, 1820, no. 136; De Forest; Auc. De Forest, Paris, Apr. 21, 1873, no. 14; Henry Lapauze; Auc., Christie's, London, July 3-20, 1908, no. 117; Auc., Paris, Dec. 21, 1937, no. 5, repr. pl. 111; Private Coll., Paris; Cailleux, Paris; Purchased by the NMWA, 1989.
Exhibition History
- 1925
- Le paysage français de Poussin à Corot, Musée du Petit-Palais, Paris, 0 May 1925 - 0 June 1925, cat. no. P. 339 (as "Les baigneuses")
- 1973
- Autour du Néoclassicisme, Cailleux, Paris, 0 1973 - 0 1973, cat. no. 50, repr.
- 1980
- Des monts et des eaux: paysages de 1715 á 1850, Galerie Cailleux, Paris, 23 September 1980 - 30 October 1980, Galerie Cailleux, Genève, 17 November 1980-17 January 1981, cat. no. 40, repr.
- 1997
- Resonating Love and Life: European Art from National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, The Niigata Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Nagaoka, 12 April 1997 - 18 May 1997, cat. no. 10
- 1998
- Claude Lorrain and the Ideal Landscape, The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 15 September 1998 - 6 December 1998, cat. no. 117
- 2012
- Hubert Robert: Les jardins du Temps, The National Museum of Western Art, 6 March 2012 - 20 May 2012, cat. no. 102
- 2017
- [Traveling Exhibitions Presenting National Art Museum Collections, Fiscal 2017] Muse: Women before the Artists' Eyes: From the Collection of the National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, Fukushima Prefectural Museum of Art, 22 April 2017 - 2 July 2017, Akita Museum of Modern Art, 15 July-18 September, cat. no. 48
- 2019
- Pictures of Twilight: The Evening Scene in Modern Painting, Yamanashi Prefectural Museum of Art, Kofu, 22 June 2019 - 25 August 2019, Shimane Art Museum, 4 September-4 November 2019, cat. no. 2
Bibliography
- 0
- Muse: Women before the Artists' Eyes: from the Collection of the National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo: Traveling Exhibitions Presenting National Art Museum Collections, Fiscal 2017 (exh. cat.). Nakada, Asuka, ed. Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 2017, pp. 76, 140, cat. no. 48, col. repr.
- 1900
- Marines et paysages aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècle. 2ème série, Parc-Saint-Maur, n. d. (ca.1900), pl. 8.
- 1926
- Ingersoll-Smouse, Florence. Joseph Vernet, peintre de marine, 1714-1789: étude critique suivie d'un catalogue raisonné de son œuvre peint, avec 357 reproductions. vol. 2, Paris, Étienne Bignou 1926, no. 973, repr. pl. CXI, no. 244.
- 1989
- Masterpieces of the National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo. Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art, 1989 (Japanese, preface in Japanese and English), no. 45, repr.
- 1990
- Catalogue of painting acquisitions: 1979-1989. Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art, 1990, pp. 77-78, repr.
- 1992
- Annual bulletin of the National Museum of Western Art. Nos. 23-24 (1989-90), 1992, Takahashi, Akiya. New Acquisitions 1988-89. pp. 17-19, Catalogue of the New Acquisitions 1988-89.pp. 42-43, repr.
- 2006
- Masterpieces of The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo. Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art; Tokyo, The Western Art Foundation, 2006 (Japanese, preface in Japanese and English), no. 55, col. repr.
- 2009
- Masterpieces of The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo. Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art; Tokyo, The Western Art Foundation, 2009, no. 55, col. repr.
- 2012
- Hubert Robert: Les jardins du Temps (exh. cat.). The National Museum of Western Art; Fukuoka Art Museum; Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art; The Tokyo Shimbun, eds. [Tokyo/ Fukuoka/ Shizuoka], The National Museum of Western Art; Western Art Foundation; Fukuoka Art Museum; Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art; The Tokyo Shimbun, 2012, pp. 206-207, 308, cat. no. 102, col. repr.
- 2013
- Masterpieces: The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo. Tokyo, The Western Art Foundation, 2013 (Japanese, preface in Japanese and English), no. 68, col. repr.
- 2017
- Muse: Women before the Artists' Eyes: from the Collection of the National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo: Traveling Exhibitions Presenting National Art Museum Collections, Fiscal 2017 (exh. cat.). Nakada, Asuka, ed. Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 2017, pp. 76, 140, cat. no. 48, col. repr.
- 2019
- Pictures of Twilight: The Evening Scene in Modern Painting(exh. cat.) [Matsue],Shimane Art Museum; [Kofu], Yamanashi Prefectural Museum of Art; [Kobe], Kobe City Koiso Memorial Museum of Art, cat. no. 2, col. repr.