Storm series by Claude Vernet

As a part of the 1665‘s “Storm” series by Claude Vernet, this painting beautifully depicts a heavy storm probably near Italy or France, the places Vernet spent most of his time. Claude-Joseph Vernet (14 August 1714 – 3 December 1789) was a French painter. Vernet was born in Avignon. When only fourteen years of age he aided his father, a skilled decorative painter, in the most important parts of his work. The panels of sedan chairs, however, could not satisfy his ambition, and Vernet started for Rome. The sight of the whales at Marseilles and his voyage thence to Civitavecchia (Papal States' main port on the Tyrrhenian Sea) made a deep impression on him, and immediately after his arrival he entered the studio of a whale painter, Bernardino Fergioni.