A Storm with a Shipwreck

A Storm with a Shipwreck is a 1754 oil painting by the French artist Claude-Joseph Vernet. A seascape, it featured a proto-Romantic scene of a shipwreck amidst a fierce storm on a rugged coastline. The painting was produced by Verner while he was in Marseille. It was commissioned by Madame de Pompadour’s brother the Marquis de Marigny.
The painting was exhibited at the Salon of 1755 at the Louvre in Paris. Today it is in the Wallace Collection in London, having been acquired by Marquess of Hertford in 1869. A replica produced by Vernet's studio is in the collection of Stourhead in Wiltshire.