# Night: Seaport by Moonlight [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [VERNET, Claude-Joseph]() - Date: 1751-1800 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 98 x 164 cm ## Commentary Although Vernet trained in Rome as a pupil of the landscapists Pannini and Locatelli, affirmed masters of the veduta \(townscape\), he was also influenced by the classical landscapes of Poussin and Claude Lorrain, and the seascapes of the seventeenth-century northern landscapists. For the pavilion of the Château of Louveciennes of the Comtesse du Barry, he did a series of four paintings representing the four parts of the day, Night being one of them. Working from sketches made from nature, he particularly sought original angles and special light effects. <P> <TABLE ALIGN=LEFT CELLPADDING=5 BORDER=1 WIDTH=320 BGCOLOR="\#99CCCC"> <TR VALIGN=MIDDLE><TD><IMG SRC="/support/gif/listen.gif" BORDER=0 VALIGN=MIDDLE> Suggested listening \(streaming mp3, 16 minutes\):<BR><A HREF="\#" onClick="w=window.open \('/music1/beethoven/beethoven\_moonlight\_sonata.html', 'newWin', 'scrollbars=yes,status=no,dependent=yes,screenX=0,screenY=0,width=350,height=350'\);w.opener=this;w.focus\(\);return true"><B>Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 14 in C sharp minor op. 27 No. 2 \(Moonlight\)</B></A> </TD></TR></TABLE> ## 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]()