| Dallas Museum of Art reunites a pair of Claude-Joseph Vernet masterpieces after 200 years |
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DALLAS, TX.- Two landscape paintings by eighteenth-century French master Claude-Joseph Vernet have been reunited for the first time in more than 200 years at the Dallas Museum of Art. Commissioned in 1774 at the height of Vernet’s career by famous English collector Lord Lansdowne, the two large-scale paintings depict the complementary scenes of unruly rustic landscape and tranquil seaport. The duo, A Mountain Landscape with an Approaching Storm and A Grand View of the Sea Shore, hung together in the collector’s home, Lansdowne House, Berkeley Square, London, until his death, when the paintings were sold to separate private collections in 1806. On view through December 11, 2011, the Dallas presentation is the first opportunity, since the Museum acquired A Mountain read full article
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