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Sheet of Studies: Seated Man, Head of a Dog, Seated Woman
Claude-Joseph Vernet1700s
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States
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.
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- Title: Sheet of Studies: Seated Man, Head of a Dog, Seated Woman
- Creator: Claude-Joseph Vernet (French, 1714-1789)
- Date Created: 1700s
- Physical Dimensions: Sheet: 12.4 x 12.7 cm (4 7/8 x 5 in.)
- Provenance: Nicholas J. Velloney [1941-2003], Cleveland, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- Type: Drawing
- Rights: CC0
- External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/2003.265
- Medium: red chalk (seated man); black chalk (head of a dog); pen and brown ink over black chalk (seated woman)
- Inscriptions: lower left, in graphite: 178 ; lower left, in graphite: 113
- Fun Fact: Claude-Joseph Vernet was first trained as an artist by his father, who was an artisan specializing in carriage decorations.
- Department: Drawings
- Culture: France, 18th century
- Credit Line: Bequest of Nicholas J. Velloney
- Collection: DR - French
- Accession Number: 2003.265
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