Cleveland Museum of Art
Sheet of Studies: Seated Man, Head of a Dog, Seated Woman
Claude-Joseph VernetLinkedCulture matchlcp-832918ffe5ee
- Date
- 1700s
- Medium
- red chalk (seated man); black chalk (head of a dog); pen and brown ink over black chalk (seated woman)
- Culture
- France, 18th century
- Department
- Drawings
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 162721
From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
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. Claude-Joseph Vernet was first trained as an artist by his father, who was an artisan specializing in carriage decorations.
The authoritative record is held by Cleveland Museum of Art. LinkedCulture surfaces this object and its connections; it does not alter institutional metadata.
Get printable QR codesHide QR codes
Open QR codes for this object page and the museum record. They stay collapsed until needed.
Provenance & credit
As published by the source institution. Coverage varies — not every institution's open-data feed includes ownership history.
- Credit line
- Bequest of Nicholas J. Velloney
- 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
Related across collections
Semantically similar works from Cleveland Museum of Art and other institutions.