Landscape with Waterfall and Figures  1768

Oil on canvas, 69 3/8 x 53 1/4 in. (176.2 x 135.2 cm) [br] Description: At the age of twenty Vernet left his native Avignon for a lengthy stay in Rome where he devloped a style of idealized landscape painting derived from the 17th-century classical traditions of Claude Lorrain and Salvator Rosa. Not until 1762 did he settle in Paris, metting with success there painting m...