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| Claude Joseph
Vernet, View of the Small Waterfalls at Tivoli, unknown
date, Musée de la Marine, Paris, © Réunion des Musées
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Vernet
was soon overwhelmed with commissions from the diplomatic community in Rome
and from the British, who considered his work the perfect souvenir of the
Grand Tour. Vernet lived in Rome for the next twenty years, painting softly
lit scenes of Tivoli, the Roman countryside, and the Neapolitan coast, as
well as seascapes, both calm and stormy. While he occasionally accepted
commissions for paintings of specific locations, he preferred to create
imaginary scenes, combining dramatic skies and land- and seascapes with
detailed foreground
figures.
 
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