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Port of La Rochelle, seen from the small shore, 1762

Vernet, Claude Joseph (1714-89); French. Medium: oil on canvas. Date: 1762. Vu de la petite rive; series of views of French seaports commissioned by King Louis XV of France in 1753 and executed between 1754 and 1765; seaport; Charente Maritime; Poitou Charentes; b/w photo; black and white photograph; La Lanterne; eglise Saint-Jean; Saint Jean; Grande Horloge; Salon 1762; INV 8305; deposit of Musee du Louvre; Provenance: Musee de la Marine, Paris, France / Giraudon. Photographic Rights The Bridgeman Art Library.