# The Cascade [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [VERNET, Claude-Joseph]() - Date: 1751-1800 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 89 x 127 cm ## Commentary This signed and dated painting depicts an alpine landscape with soldiers and fishermen. An entirely original conception with the large rock thrusting forward into the centre, it heralds the romanticism of the next century with its dominating mountains surrounded at their peaks by swirling mist. ## Related artworks - [A Seashore \(detail\)]() - [A Seashore]() - [Capriccio view of Montferrat]() - ["Clair de Lune"]() - [Coastal Landscape]() - [Coastal Landscape with Fishermen Hauling in their Nets]() - [Coastal Scene in Moonlight]() - [Coastal Scene]() - [Coastal View with a Rainbow]() - [Girls Bathing at the Seaside]() - [Italian Harbour Scene]() - [Italianate River Landscape]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()