Updated November 2026 · ranked by our popularity score (searches, visits and orders for each work) · 226 works by Joseph Vernet in our catalogue
In short
Of all the originals Joseph Vernet left, the most famous is Sunset (1760), in the collection of the Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge. Close behind it come A Seashore (detail) (1776) and A Landscape at Sunset. Our catalog holds 226 works by Joseph Vernet; the gallery has kept the 100 the world admires most, each shown with its date, its museum and its story.
To gaze upon Claude Joseph Vernet's "Sunset" is to surrender to a profound sense of peace. This 1760 masterpiece does more than merely depict a coastal scene; it captures a fleeting, perfect moment where the vastness of nature meets the gentle rhythm of human life. The air itself seems thick with the warm, golden light spilling across the water as the sun dips below the horizon. One can almost hear…
In the delicate dance between land and sea, Claude Joseph Vernet captures a moment of profound stillness that transcends the centuries. His 1776 masterpiece, A Seashore (detail), is far more than a mere coastal observation; it is an evocative window into the Enlightenment era, where the boundaries between scientific curiosity and romantic wonder began to blur. As one gazes upon this exquisite copper print, the viewer is immediately transported to…
A Landscape at Sunset is a French oil painting executed by Joseph Vernet in 1773. The work captures a specific atmospheric moment where light meets the water, establishing a serene mood through the interplay of sky and river. Vernet, a significant figure in eighteenth-century maritime art, utilizes the medium of oil on canvas to render the subtle transitions of a setting sun.
In the vast annals of maritime art, few works capture the ephemeral magic of the sea with as much grace as Claude Joseph Vernet’s “Seascape: Calm.” Created in 1735, this masterpiece serves as a breathtaking window into an era where the horizon was not merely a boundary, but a stage for the divine interplay of light and water. The painting presents a serene coastal scene, likely caught in the soft,…
Claude Joseph Vernet’s “Shipwreck” is far more than a mere depiction of maritime disaster; it is a profound cornerstone of Romantic landscape painting that captures the very essence of human vulnerability. Completed in 1763, this oil on canvas masterpiece invites viewers into a world where the boundaries between awe and terror dissolve. The scene unfolds with a panoramic intensity, dominated by turbulent, churning seas and brooding, heavy skies that seem…
The river flows with a quiet, rhythmic pulse. In this scene, completed between 1768 and 1770, the water catches the diffused luminescence of a soft sky. Figures move through the shallows, their bodies breaking the surface in a slow dance of summer heat. A dog rests near the center, its presence grounding the pastoral dream, while sheep graze upon the hillside, their white forms scattered like fallen clouds against the…
A turbulent seascape dominates the canvas, where the sea is a churning mass of white spray and dark, heavy currents. A small sailing vessel struggles against the weight of the water, its crew working to secure the hull against the pull of the tide. Above this maritime struggle, a rocky promontory rises from the foam. Upon this height, the Genoa Lighthouse pierces the gloom, its beam cutting through the salt-heavy…
The artwork titled Marine dit aussi Les pêcheurs des monts Pyrénées soirée belongs to the hand of Joseph Vernet. This painter, born in Avignon, France, in 1714, spent his life observing the shifting moods of the water. He remained active in his craft until his death in 1789.
Claude-Joseph Vernet's "Seascape: Tempest," painted in 1735, isn’t merely a depiction of a storm at sea; it’s a visceral embodiment of nature’s raw power and the precariousness of human existence. More than two centuries after its creation, this oil on canvas continues to resonate with viewers, drawing them into the heart of the tempestuous scene with an immediacy rarely achieved in landscape painting. Vernet, a master of maritime light and…
Claude-Joseph Vernet’s “Coastal Scene (La nuit),” painted circa 1750-53, stands as a cornerstone of maritime landscape painting and exemplifies the burgeoning Romantic movement's fascination with dramatic natural phenomena. Executed in oil on canvas, this artwork transcends mere depiction; it strives to capture not just what is seen but how it feels—the palpable tension between calm sea surface and turbulent sky.
Calm1735 · Musée Comtadin-Duplessis
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Italian Landscape1738 · Dulwich Picture Gallery
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The four times of day: Evening1757 · Art Gallery of South Australia
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Morning, Fishing1750
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Portrait of Simon-Mathurin Lantara1750
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The Cascade at Tivoli1750 · Birmingham Museum of Art
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The Waterfalls at Tivoli, with the Villa of Maecenas1750 · Mauritshuis
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An Italian Harbour in Stormy Weather1750 · Mauritshuis
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Port1750 · National Museum of Fine Arts of Cuba
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Night Rocky Inlet with Fisherfolk Setting Their Nets, Cooking and Drinking by Moonlight1751 · Uppark
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A Sea Bay at Setting Sun1760 · Bavarian State Painting Collections
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Landscape. Moonlight Effect1759
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Landscape with Washerwomen1763 · Petit Palais
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The Cascades of Tivoli1760 · Dayton Art Institute
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Good Fishing1758
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The Four Times of Day: Morning1757 · Art Gallery of South Australia
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Fishermen Under the Castle Ruin (La pêche à la ligne - copy)1770 · Ernest Zmeták Art Gallery
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Nymphs Bathing, the Time is the Morning1771 · Bowes Museum
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A Shipwreck on a Rocky Coast1775
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Seaport at Sunrise1767 · Dulwich Picture Gallery
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Mediterranean Harbor at Sunset1788
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Soldiers in a Mountain Gorge, with a Storm1789
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The four times of day: Night1757 · Art Gallery of South Australia
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Night: Mediterranean Coast Scene with Fishermen and Boats1753 · Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum
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A Storm1762 · National Museum in Warsaw
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Landscape with Waterfall and Figures1768 · Walters Art Museum
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A River Scene1781 · Wallace Collection
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The Italian Gondola1785 · Scottish National Gallery
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A Storm on a Mediterranean Coast1767 · J. Paul Getty Museum
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Oriental Seaport at Sunrise1755 · Alte Pinakothek
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Naples1737 · Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp
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View of Posillipo near Naples1742
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Tivoli Landscape1741 · Petit Palais
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The Waterfalls at Tivoli1737 · Cleveland Museum of Art
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The Storm1735 · Musée Comtadin-Duplessis
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A Storm at Sea1740 · Museum of Western and Oriental Art
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Harbour landscape1739
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The Storm1752 · Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe
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Shipwreck at Evening1751 · Bavarian State Painting Collections
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Evening Walk1748 · Bavarian State Painting Collections
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Party in the Morning1748 · Bavarian State Painting Collections
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Morning Mist at Sunrise1748 · Bavarian State Painting Collections
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Seascape, Sunset1753
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Seascape, Sunset; Fishermen Pushing a Boat1750
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Seascape, Landscape and Sunset1753
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Marine (with three masts)1750
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Shipwreck1750
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Departure from the Port in the Morning Freshness1749 · Musée Calvet
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A View of Tivoli with the Anio Novus Aqueduct1751 · Uppark
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The Shipwreck1753 · Musée Calvet
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The Italian Gondola1750 · Musée Calvet
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Storm1750 · Musée Calvet
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Sea view1750 · National Gallery of Armenia
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Morning in Castellammare1750
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Moonlight1753 · Musée Comtadin-Duplessis
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Marine, Calm1745 · Musée Fabre
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Marine by Calm Weather, Sunset Effect1748 · Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille
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Imaginary Landscape, Italian Harbor Scene1746 · Minneapolis Institute of Art
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A Storm1748 · Musée Des Beaux
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View of Naples vith Mount Vesuvius1748
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The Port of Marseille1754
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The Ponte Rotto, Rome1745
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L'Arc en Ciel1749
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Mediterranean Port at Dawn1750
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Coastal Landscape1747
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Nocturnal Seastorm1752
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Morning A Port in the Mist – Fishermen Hauling in Their Boat1751 · Uppark
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A River Landscape with a Town above1751 · Uppark
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Evening Habour Scene with Boats Being Unloaded and Spectators1751 · Uppark
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Midday A Ship Offshore, Foundering in a Storm1751 · Uppark
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An Italianate Harbour Scene1749 · Dulwich Picture Gallery
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A River with Fishermen1751
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The Tempest (Storm off the Coast)1754 · Haworth Art Gallery
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Figures in a Landscape1750
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The Islands of the Archipelago1751 · Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
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Seascape, Moonlight1762
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The South, a Storm1765
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Evening1765
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The Night, a Moonlight1765
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The Morning1762 · Opera House
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The Night1762 · Opera House
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The Evening1762 · Opera House
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The South1762 · Opera House
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Scene on the Tiber1760
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Castel Sant'Angelo, Rome1760
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View of Bordeaux Harbor1759
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Rocky coast with sailors pushing a boat ashore1764
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A Shipwreck1759 · Statens Museum For Kunst
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Harbour Scene1759 · Statens Museum For Kunst
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Seascape, Gale1762 · Statens Museum For Kunst
The four subjects that come back most often in these originals, each with its finest example.
The 8 museums that hold the most of the paintings on this page.
| Museum | City | Works by Joseph Vernet | Paintings from this list |
|---|---|---|---|
 Uppark |
6 | Night Rocky Inlet with Fisherfolk Setting Their Nets, Cooking and Drinking by Moonlight, A View of Tivoli with the Anio Novus Aqueduct, Morning A Port in the Mist – Fishermen Hauling in Their Boat | |
 Bavarian State Painting Collections |
Munich | 10 | A Sea Bay at Setting Sun, Shipwreck at Evening, Evening Walk |
 Musée Calvet |
Avignon | 9 | Departure from the Port in the Morning Freshness, The Shipwreck, The Italian Gondola |
 Opera House |
Versailles | 4 | The Morning, The Night, The Evening |
 Dulwich Picture Gallery |
London | 6 | Italian Landscape, Seaport at Sunrise, An Italianate Harbour Scene |
 Statens Museum For Kunst |
Copenhagen | 6 | A Shipwreck, Harbour Scene, Seascape, Gale |
 Musée Comtadin-Duplessis |
Carpentras | 4 | Calm, The Storm, Moonlight |
 Art Gallery of South Australia |
Adelaide | 4 | The four times of day: Evening, The Four Times of Day: Morning, The four times of day: Night |
Pick a decade to see the original that defines it.
In the vast annals of maritime art, few works capture the ephemeral magic of the sea with as much grace as Claude Joseph Vernet’s “Seascape: Calm.” Created in 1735, this masterpiece serves as a breathtaking window into an era where the horizon was not merely a boundary, but a stage for the divine interplay of light and water. The painting presents a serene coastal scene, likely caught in the soft,…
A turbulent seascape dominates the canvas, where the sea is a churning mass of white spray and dark, heavy currents. A small sailing vessel struggles against the weight of the water, its crew working to secure the hull against the pull of the tide. Above this maritime struggle, a rocky promontory rises from the foam. Upon this height, the Genoa Lighthouse pierces the gloom, its beam cutting through the salt-heavy…
Claude-Joseph Vernet’s “Coastal Scene (La nuit),” painted circa 1750-53, stands as a cornerstone of maritime landscape painting and exemplifies the burgeoning Romantic movement's fascination with dramatic natural phenomena. Executed in oil on canvas, this artwork transcends mere depiction; it strives to capture not just what is seen but how it feels—the palpable tension between calm sea surface and turbulent sky.
To gaze upon Claude Joseph Vernet's "Sunset" is to surrender to a profound sense of peace. This 1760 masterpiece does more than merely depict a coastal scene; it captures a fleeting, perfect moment where the vastness of nature meets the gentle rhythm of human life. The air itself seems thick with the warm, golden light spilling across the water as the sun dips below the horizon. One can almost hear…
In the delicate dance between land and sea, Claude Joseph Vernet captures a moment of profound stillness that transcends the centuries. His 1776 masterpiece, A Seashore (detail), is far more than a mere coastal observation; it is an evocative window into the Enlightenment era, where the boundaries between scientific curiosity and romantic wonder began to blur. As one gazes upon this exquisite copper print, the viewer is immediately transported to…
In this classical landscape oil painting, titled Mediterranean Harbor at Sunset, Joseph Vernet captures a bustling Mediterranean harbor at sunset. The work, dated about 1788, presents a scene of maritime activity set against a dramatic sky. It is a study of light and movement within a coastal environment.
Sunset (1760), Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge. A Seashore (detail) (1776) and A Landscape at Sunset come next.
46 years old: Sunset dates from 1760, and Joseph Vernet was born in 1714.
Sunset, A Seashore (detail), A Landscape at Sunset, Seascape: Calm, Shipwreck, River Scene with Bathers, Genoa Lighthouse and the Temple of Minerva Medica, Marine dit aussi Les pêcheurs des monts Pyrénées soirée, Seascape: Tempest and Coastal Scene (La nuit). The ranking above gives each one's year and museum.
Our catalog holds 226 works by Joseph Vernet, dated from 1735 to 1789.
Mostly in Uppark, Bavarian State Painting Collections (Munich) and Musée Calvet (Avignon). The museum table above lists them all.
In 1750s: 43 of the 100 works on this page were made then, Coastal Scene (La nuit) among them.
On this page, the earliest is Seascape: Calm (1735) and the latest Soldiers in a Mountain Gorge, with a Storm (1789).
Sky (62), Sea (45) and Water (39), across the 100 works on this page.
Oil On Canvas, for 84 of the 100 works on this page.
Rococo and Romanticism, judging by the originals on this page.
Night Rocky Inlet with Fisherfolk Setting Their Nets, Cooking and Drinking by Moonlight, A View of Tivoli with the Anio Novus Aqueduct and Morning A Port in the Mist – Fishermen Hauling in Their Boat: the Uppark holds 6 of the works on this page.
