Portrait of Joseph Vernet

Portrait of Joseph Vernet
Artist	Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun
Year	1778
Type	Oil on canvas, portrait painting
Dimensions	90 cm × 79 cm (35 in × 31 in)
Location	Louvre, Paris

Portrait of Joseph Vernetis a 1778 portrait painting by the French artist Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun depicting her fellow painter Joseph Vernet. A noted producer of marine art, known for his Views of the Ports of France of series, Vernet was the father and grandfather of the artists Carle Vernet and Horace Vernet. Le Brun depicts him an palette and paint brush. It was one of her earliest portraits and features Vernet who had been supportive of her.

Today the painting is in the collection of the Louvre in Paris, having been acquired in 1817.

See also

• Portrait of Carle Vernet, an 1801 portrait of Joseph's son Robert Lefèvre

Bibliography

• Baillio, Joseph & Baetjer, Katharine & Lang, Paul. Vigée Le Brun. Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2016.
• May, Gita. Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun: The Odyssey of an Artist in an Age of Revolution. Yale University Press, 2008.