Rivage Près De Tivoli, Vernet

Shore near Tivoli
Claude Joseph Vernet (painter)
Jacques Aliamet (engraver)
Dim: 43 x 53 cm.
Dim frame: 58 x 68 cm

New frame.

Dedicated to Monseigneur Le Duc de la Rochefoucauld Pair de France.
By his very humble and obedient Servant.
J.ALIAMET engraver of the King and M and M Imperial and Royal.
(R.Portalis and H. Béraldi 7).

The original painting is preserved at the Minneapolis Institute of Art.
Painted for Frédéric-Jérôme de la Rochefoucauld (1701-1757).

" It is a great magician, that this Vernet, one would think that he begins by creating a country and that there are men, women, children in reserve, whose canvas he populates as one populates a colony, then he makes them the sky, time, season, happiness, the misfortune he likes". Diderot