Studio of Claude Joseph Vernet (Avignon 1714-1789 Paris) Fishermen returning at noonStudio of Claude Joseph Vernet (Avignon 1714-1789 Paris)Fishermen returning at noon oil on canvas99.1 x 137.1cm (39 x 54in).The present work is after Vernet's original, now in The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. Another version, signed and dated 1751, oil on canvas, 86 x 120cm, was offered at Hotel Drouot, Paris, 24 June 1928, lot 32 (see: F. Ingersoll-Smouse, Joseph Vernet Peintre Marine etude critique et catalogue raisonne, cat.no. 334ter, p. 69, ill, pl.69, as dubious attribution).