| The Approach to a Fair | |
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| Artist | Claude-Joseph Vernet |
| Year | 1774 |
| Type | Oil on canvas, landscape painting |
| Dimensions | 98 cm × 163 cm (39 in × 64 in) |
| Location | Musée Fabre, Montpellier |
The Approach to a Fair (French: Les abords d'une foire) is a 1774 landscape painting by the French artist Claude-Joseph Vernet. It depicts a view on the Rhône near the town of Beaucaire in southern France during its fair.[1]
It was one of a pair of pictures commissioned from Vernet by the Controller-General of Finances Joseph Marie Terray along with its pendant Constructing a Main Road. Both paintings were exhibited at the Salon of 1775 at the Louvre in Paris.[2] Today the painting is in the collection of the Musée Fabre in Montpellier, having been acquired in 1837.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ Bailey. Patriotic Taste. p.91
- ^ Bailey. The Age of Watteau, Chardin and Fragonard.p.302
- ^ https://www.museefabre.fr/recherche/musee:MUS_BIEN:3450
Bibliography
[edit]- Bailey, Colin C. Patriotic Taste: Collecting Modern Art in Pre-revolutionary Paris. Yale University Press, 2002.
- Bailey, Colin B. The Age of Watteau, Chardin, and Fragonard: Masterpieces of French Genre Painting. Yale University Press, 2003.
- Conisbee, Philip. French Genre Painting in the Eighteenth Century. National Gallery of Art, 2007.
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