# Navigation before a Promontory

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## Artwork

- Artist: [PUGET, Pierre](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/puget-pierre-rae896edd9940c8>)
- Date: 1651-1700
- Technique: Brush, pen, India ink on parchment, 20 x 23,4 cm

## Commentary

The artist achieves great effects by the contrast between the different planes of the compositionÉ the rock in the foregroung, the ship and the promontory in the background.

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- [Alessandro Sauli](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/puget-pierre-rae896edd9940c8/alessandro-sauli-re6d7ecce0b0b67>)
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- [Assumption of the Virgin](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/puget-pierre-rae896edd9940c8/assumption-of-the-virgin-r5f70e7845af603>)
- [Atlas from the door of the Hôtel de Ville at Toulon](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/puget-pierre-rae896edd9940c8/atlas-from-the-door-of-the-htel-de-ville-at-toulon-r8e0d72ac82ac0e>)
- [Blessed Alessandro Sauli](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/puget-pierre-rae896edd9940c8/blessed-alessandro-sauli-r0fa7c62be57bba>)
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- [Door of the Hôtel de Ville at Toulon](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/puget-pierre-rae896edd9940c8/door-of-the-htel-de-ville-at-toulon-r06274c42fc7035>)
- [Door of the Hôtel de Ville at Toulon](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/puget-pierre-rae896edd9940c8/door-of-the-htel-de-ville-at-toulon-r246afbc613b5cf>)
- [Door of the Hôtel de Ville at Toulon](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/puget-pierre-rae896edd9940c8/door-of-the-htel-de-ville-at-toulon-r263a079d0735b4>)
- [Exterior view](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/puget-pierre-rae896edd9940c8/exterior-view-ra28769946c0ad7>)

## Attribution

[Web Gallery of Art](<https://beta.wga.hu/pages/about>)