Storm in the Moonlight | Harvard Art Museums

Identification and Creation

Object Number: G1522
People: Jean Jacques Flipart, French (1719 - 1782)
After Claude-Joseph Vernet, French (Avignon 1714 - 1789 Paris)
Title: Storm in the Moonlight
Other Titles: Original Language Title: Tempête au clair de lune
Classification: Prints
Work Type: print
Date: 1771
Culture: French
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/241411

Physical Descriptions

Technique

Engraving

Dimensions

Image: 43 × 59.3 cm (16 15/16 × 23 3/8 in.)
Plate: 47.6 × 61 cm (18 3/4 × 24 in.)
Sheet: 47.4 × 60.9 cm (18 11/16 × 24 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

Signed: Gravé par J. J. Flipart...1771

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History: Francis Calley Gray, bequest; to William Gray, his nephew, 1856, gift; to Harvard University, 1857.

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Standard Reference Number: IFF, vol. IX, no. 144, p. 238; Le Blanc 34, And. 13, Arl. 180

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line: Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of William Gray from the collection of Francis Calley Gray
Object Number: G1522
Division: European and American Art
Contact: am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

Lawrence Kramer, "Primitive Encounters: Beethoven's 'Tempest' Sonata, Musical Meaning, and...", Beethoven Forum, University of Nebraska Press (Lincoln, NE, 1998), no. 6, pp. 44-45, pl. 1 & 2 (detail)

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G1522: Storm in the Moonlight