# Mediterranean Coastal Scene [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [VERNET, Claude-Joseph]() - Date: 1751-1800 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 78 x 116 cm ## Commentary This picture represents a Mediterranean coastal scene at sunset with figures fishing in the foreground. It is a typical composition from the painter's mature period with the design constructed around the principal compositional elements of the man of war, the rocky bluffs, the ruined tower, and the foreground occupied by fishermen or other spectators. These were all motifs that Vernet had developed as a result of his twenty-year stay in Italy between 1734 and 1753. ## 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]()