View of the Town and Harbor of Toulon (La villa y rada de Tolón)  1771

[b]Notes from the Curator:[/b] [br]This work by Juan Patricio Morlete Ruiz was based on engravings of the original series of paintings, Ports de France, by the French artist Claude-Joseph Vernet (1714––1789). Vernet’s series comprised fifteen paintings, which were completed between 1753 and 1765. Commissioned for Louis XV of France by Abel-François Poisson (1727–1781), mar...