Public collection via the Cleveland Museum of Art
AT-00011246Sheet of Studies: Seated Man, Head of a Dog, Seated Woman
About the Artwork
At age 20, Claude-Joseph Vernet traveled to Italy, where he remained for two decades, painting landscape views of the Roman countryside and stormy, imaginary seascapes for Italian aristocrats and wealthy French and British tourists. Vernet populated his paintings with contemporary figures based on sketches from life, such as the three shown here. Drawn at different times in different media, together they form an amusing glimpse of Italian street life in the 1700s.
Inscriptions
lower left, in graphite: 178 ; lower left, in graphite: 113
Provenance
?-2003: Nicholas J. Velloney [1941-2003], Cleveland, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH 2003-: Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Exhibition history
Stories from Storage. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 7-May 16, 2021).
Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Claude-Joseph Vernet (French, 1714–1789)
- Date
- 1700s
- Medium
- red chalk (seated man); black chalk (head of a dog); pen and brown ink over black chalk (seated woman)
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 12.4 x 12.7 cm (4 7/8 x 5 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- Drawing
- Department
- Drawings
- Credit line
- Bequest of Nicholas J. Velloney
- Accession no.
- 2003.265
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