Collection

Probably bought in Rome, 1749, by the comte de Merle, his sale, Ph. F. Juillot fils, Paris, March 1–4, 1784, lot 22, with a pendant [1] Bought Paillet, a dealer (according to a manuscript note against this lot in the copy of the aforementioned sale catalogue, in the library of the National Gallery, London); Luttrellstown Castle, Clonsilla, Ireland. It has been suggested that the painting was bought about 1800 by Luke White, a member of the Irish Parliament, when he bought the house for the Luttrell family, from whom it passed to the Guinnesses, the last of whom to own it was the Honorable Mrs. (Aileen) Plunket (née) Guinness, her sale, Sotheby’s, London, July 13, 1977, lot 8; Acquired by the Putnam Foundation, 1978

Provenance Notes:

[1] The Timken painting has been identified (Paris, Musée de la Marine, Palais de Chaillot, 1976–77, Joseph Vernet, 1714–1789, p. 57, no. 19, ill.) as one of a pair that figured as lot 22 in the sale catalogue of pictures belonging to the comte de Merle.

Dublin, Municipal Gallery of Modern Art, 1957, Paintings from Irish Collections, no. 69; London, Kenwood, 1976, Claude-Joseph Vernet, no. 17, ill.; Paris, Musée de la Marine, Palais de Chaillot, 1976-77, Joseph Vernet, 1714-1789, p. 57, no. 19, ill.; New York, Colnaghi, 1990, Claude

to Corot: The Development of Landscape Painting in France, cat. by Alan Wintermute et al., pp. 169-70, no. 29, ill.