Four Times of the Day (Joseph Vernet)

Portrait of Joseph Vernet (1714–1789), French painter

Four Times of the Day is a series of four paintings depicting four times of the day: Morning, Midday, Evening, and Night by the French landscape painter Claude Joseph Vernet (1714–1789).[1][2][3][4]

They were painted in 1757 in Paris, and are held by the Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide.[1][2][3][4] The paintings consist of four separate scenes depicting morning, midday, evening and night,[5] a series created by several artists of the era including Vernet and Philip James de Loutherbourg.[5]

  1. ^ a b "Morning". www.artgallery.sa.gov.au. Retrieved 2 October 2018.
  2. ^ a b "Midday". www.artgallery.sa.gov.au. Retrieved 2 October 2018.
  3. ^ a b "Evening". www.artgallery.sa.gov.au. Retrieved 2 October 2018.
  4. ^ a b "Night". www.artgallery.sa.gov.au. Retrieved 2 October 2018.
  5. ^ a b Lochhead 1982, pp. 78–79.