# Coastal View with a Rainbow [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [VERNET, Claude-Joseph]() - Date: 1751-1800 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 114 x 163 cm ## Commentary This painting and its pendant, Seaport at Sunset, were commissioned by Vernet's close friend and patron the Comte de Merles, Charles-Louis. It depicts an Italianate coastal view with a rainbow, fisherman, and peasants at an inlet in the foreground, a shipwright's yard beyond. ## 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]() - [Girls Bathing at the Seaside]() - [Italian Harbour Scene]() - [Italianate River Landscape]() - [Landscape with Bathers]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()