# Shipwreck [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [VERNET, Claude-Joseph]() - Date: 1751-1800 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 102 x 126 cm ## Commentary Vernet's repertoire was a limited one, consisting of landscapes, more-or-less reminiscent of Tivoli with its picturesque hills, overhanging rocks, waterfalls, and pastoral staffage; or more commonly marines, showing a rocky Italianate coastline, usually populated with fisherfolk, or a seaboard tamed by the hand of man into harbour with a mole and lighthouse reminiscent of Naples and represented at different times of day and in different weather conditions. Within this formulaic types, there was a considerable variety of pictorial motifs, which Vernet could mix and match with such a degree of invention that in an oeuvre of about two thousand paintings he never exactly repeated himself, except when he may have made an autograph replica. The Shipwreck is a characteristic work depicting a subject which Vernet painted in several versions. ## 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]()