Entrance to the Port of Palermo by Moonlight

Claude-Joseph Vernet was a French painter. His son Carle Vernet and daughter Marguerite Émilie Chalgrin were also painters.

Port of Palermo by Moonlight is an oil painting on canvas by the French painter Claude-Joseph Vernet, from 1769. It is signed and dated lower left: "J. Vernet f 1769". The painting was originalled exhibited at the Salon of 1769 at the Louvre in Paris. It is held in the Hermitage Museum, in Saint Petersburg.