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This picture represents a Mediterranean coastal scene at sunset with figures fishing in the foreground. It is a typical composition from the painter's mature period with the design constructed around the principal compositional elements of the man of war, the rocky bluffs, the ruined tower, and the foreground occupied by fishermen or other spectators. These were all motifs that Vernet had developed as a result of his twenty-year stay in Italy between 1734 and 1753.
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