Four Times of the Day (Joseph Vernet)

Four Times of the Day is a series of four paintings depicting four times of the day: Morning, Midday, Evening, and Night by the French landscape painter Claude Joseph Vernet (1714–1789).[1][2][3][4]

Portrait of Joseph Vernet (1714–1789), French painter

They were painted in 1757 in Paris, and are held by the Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide.[1][2][3][4] The paintings consist of four separate scenes depicting morning, midday, evening and night,[5] a series created by several artists of the era including Vernet and Philip James de Loutherbourg.[5]

Artist

Claude Joseph Vernet was considered the leading French artist of his time in his genre, marine art and landscape painting. He came from a family of French painters: he was the son of a decorative painter, and his son Antoine-Charles-Horace Vernet, Carle Vernet (1758–1836), and his grandson Horace Vernet (1789–1863) were known as military painters. Vernet lived in Italy for 20 years, 1734 to 1753, where he had an atelier in Rome. His style was influenced by the Italian 17th-century painters Claude Lorrain and Salvator Rosa. His landscapes and especially seascapes were celebrated for their romantic qualities. Upon his return to France, a series of marine paintings were commissioned from him around 1753 by the French king Louis XV. This was to depict a series of seaports, of which 15 paintings were executed. The project lasted for about 10 years, and until 1765 he traveled around France painting seascapes, eventually abandoning the project unfinished.[6][7][8]

Paintings

In the series of four paintings, the first depiction is entitled Morning. The painting shows a misty morning scene with fishermen with their boat. The second, entitled Midday depicts a sudden, unexpected storm. The painting Evening shows women bathing and washing their clothes. The final scene shows a rocky inlet, with fishermen drying their nets while others are gathered round a fire. The scenes depicted in the paintings were Vernet's favourite scenes that he painted in different settings throughout his career.[9][10]

  • The Four Times of the Day
  • The four times of day: Morning
  • The four times of day: Midday
  • The four times of day: Evening
  • The four times of day: Night

See also

Notes
  1. "Morning". www.artgallery.sa.gov.au. Retrieved 2 October 2018.
  2. "Midday". www.artgallery.sa.gov.au. Retrieved 2 October 2018.
  3. "Evening". www.artgallery.sa.gov.au. Retrieved 2 October 2018.
  4. "Night". www.artgallery.sa.gov.au. Retrieved 2 October 2018.
  5. Lochhead 1982, pp. 78–79.
  6. "Biography and Works, Joseph Vernet". www.museothyssen.org. Retrieved 2015-01-01.
  7. "Encyclopædia Britannica, Joseph Vernet". www.archive.org. Retrieved 2015-01-01.
  8. "making_nature". arthistory.about.com. Retrieved 2015-01-01.
  9. "Claude Joseph Vernet". Art UK. Retrieved 2015-01-01.
  10. "National Trust Collections, Vernet". www.nationaltrustcollections.org.uk. Retrieved 2015-01-01.

References
  • Lochhead, Ian J. (1982). The Spectator and the Landscape in the Art Criticism of Diderot and His Contemporaries. Umi Research Press.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)

Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Vernet § I. CLAUDE JOSEPH VERNET" . Encyclopædia Britannica. 27 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 1030.

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