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| Claude Joseph
Vernet, Panorama of Rome, with Colosseum, unknown date,
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna |
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Like
Claude and other artists of the time, Vernet traveled to Italy to complete
his artistic education. The young Vernet was immediately taken by the beauty
of the Italian countryside, writing back to Avignon in 1734: "One finds
the most beautiful views in the world for drawing [here in Rome]."
Vernet loved to sketch en plein air. The English painter Sir Joshua Reynolds
noted this, writing to a fledgling painter: "Carry your palette and pencils
to the waterside. This was the practice of Vernet...he showed me his studies
in colours...the impression is warm from Nature."
 
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