Page of A Seashore (detail) by VERNET, Claude-Joseph in the Web Gallery of Art, a searchable image collection and database of European paintings and sculptures (1100-1850)

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A Seashore (detail)
1776
Oil on copper
National Gallery, London
Vernet's coastal views are always enlivened by people, who are completely of the period; they are not to be dismissed as mere staffage, because there is in them acute, vivid observation of costume and manners - and a liveliness that approximates to wit.