The Castel Nuovo in Naples, with a View of Mount Vesuvius by Claude Joseph Vernet — Claude Joseph Vernet. The Castel Nuovo in Naples, with a View of Mount Vesuvius, ca. 1737–53. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Public domain (CC0).

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The Castel Nuovo in Naples, with a View of Mount Vesuvius

by Claude Joseph Vernet

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Artist: Joseph Vernet (French, Avignon 1714–1789 Paris)
Date: ca. 1737–53
Medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown and gray wash, over black chalk
Dimensions: 13 1/8 x 19 7/16 in. (33.4 x 49.4 cm)
Type: Drawing
Classification: Drawings
Department: Drawings and Prints
Credit line: Harry G. Sperling Fund, 1976
Accession no.: 1976.334.1

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