About This Lesson
In 2007 LACMA acquired a remarkable group of six paintings by the Mexican painter Juan Patricio Morlete Ruiz (1713--1781). This group of works is based on engravings after Ports de France, an original series of fifteen paintings completed between 1753 and 1765 by eighteenth-century French artist Claude-Joseph Vernet (1714--1789). Commissioned for Louis XV of France (reigned 1723--74) by Abel-François Poisson, marquis de Marigny and brother of Madame de Pompadour, Vernet's series enjoyed immediate success and was widely disseminated through prints.
