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Four Times of the Day is a series of four paintings.[1][2][3][4] from 1757 by the French French landscape painter Claude Joseph Vernet (1714-1789). He was considered to be the leading French artists of his time in his genre, marine art and landscape painting. Claude Joseph Vernet come from a family of French painters, he was the son of a decorative painter, and his sons Antoine-Charles-Horace, known as Carle Vernet (1758-1836), and Horace Vernet (1789-1863) were French military painters. Vernet lived in Italy for twenty years, from from 1734 to 1753, where he had an atelier in Rome. His style was influenced by the Italian 17th-century painters Claude Lorrain and Salvator Rosa. His landscapes and especially seascapes were celebrated for their romantic qualities. Upon his return to France, a series of marine paintings were commissioned from him around 1753 by the French king Louis XV to depict a series of seaports of of witch fifteen paintings were executed. [5][6][7][8]
Paintings[edit]
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The four times of day: Morning -
The four times of day: Midday -
The four times of day: Evening -
The four times of day: Night
References[edit]
- ^ "Morning". www.artgallery.sa.gov.au. Retrieved 2015.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|accessdate=(help) - ^ "Midday". www.artgallery.sa.gov.au. Retrieved 2015.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|accessdate=(help) - ^ "Evening". www.artgallery.sa.gov.au. Retrieved 2015.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|accessdate=(help) - ^ "Night". www.artgallery.sa.gov.au. Retrieved 2015.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|accessdate=(help) - ^ "Encyclopedia Britannica, Joseph Vernet". www.archive.org. Retrieved 2015.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|accessdate=(help) - ^ "making_nature". arthistory.about.com. Retrieved 2015.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|accessdate=(help) - ^ . www.nationaltrustcollections.org.uk http://www.nationaltrustcollections.org.uk/object/138286.1. Retrieved 2015.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|accessdate=(help); Missing or empty|title=(help) - ^ "Claude Joseph Vernet". www.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 2015.
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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Vernet". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 27 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 1030.
