A Sporting Contest on the Tiber

A Sporting Contest on the Tiber
Artist	Claude-Joseph Vernet
Year	1750
Type	Oil on canvas, lanscape genre painting
Dimensions	99.1 cm × 135.5 cm (39.0 in × 53.3 in)
Location	National Gallery, London

A Sporting Contest on the Tiber is a 1750 genre painting by the French artist Claude-Joseph Vernet.^{[1] [2] [3]} It was one of four painting sent from Rome by Vernet to be submitted to the Paris Salon of 1750.^[4]

It shows a view from the west bank of the Tiber facing towards the Castel Sant'Angelo. The exact event it portrays is unknown, but river jousts were a popular form of entertainment. It is likely that Duke of Nevers, his wife and the artist are three of the figures shown prominently in the foreground. It is now in the collection of the National Gallery in London having been presented to the gallery in 1853.^[5]

References

1. Hackney p.17
2. Grand Tour: The Lure of Italy in the Eighteenth Century. Tate Gallery, 1996. p.196
3. Sutton p.44-45
4. https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/claude-joseph-vernet-a-sporting-contest-on-the-tiber
5. https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/claude-joseph-vernet-a-sporting-contest-on-the-tiber

Bibliography

• Hackney, Stephen. On Canvas: Preserving the Structure of Paintings. Getty Publications, 2020.
• Sutton, Denys. Fads and Fancies. Wittenborn, 1979.