The Approach to a Fair

The Approach to a Fair
ArtistClaude-Joseph Vernet
Year1774
TypeOil on canvas, landscape painting
Dimensions98 cm × 163 cm (39 in × 64 in)
LocationMusée Fabre, Montpellier

The Approach to a Fair (French: Les abords d'une foire) is a 1774 landscape painting by the French artist Claude-Joseph Vernet. It depicts a view on the Rhône near the town of Beaucaire in southern France during its fair.

It was one of a pair of pictures commissioned from Vernet by the Controller-General of Finances Joseph Marie Terray along with its pendant Constructing a Main Road. Both paintings were exhibited at the Salon of 1775 at the Louvre in Paris. Today the painting is in the collection of the Musée Fabre in Montpellier, having been acquired in 1837.

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