A Shipwreck in Stormy Seas ('Tempête')
Claude-Joseph Vernet

Claude-Joseph Vernet

1714 - 1789

Claude-Joseph Vernet was a French painter. His son, Antoine Charles Horace Vernet, was also a painter.

Vernet was born in Avignon. When only fourteen years of age he aided his father, Antoine Vernet (1689-1753), a skilled...