Signed Vernet Landscape Painting Fragment

This item is an oil-on-canvas landscape painting, prominently featuring a hand-painted signature that reads 'Vernet' in the lower-left or lower-middle quadrant. The piece is executed in a rich, earthy palette of burnt umber, forest green, and ochre, suggesting a rustic or pastoral scene. The paint application exhibits a impasto-like quality with visible brushwork and texture, particularly in the darker, shadowed areas of the composition. It is housed in what appears to be a double-tiered framing structure: an inner white painted wood or gesso slip/liner and an outer linen fabric-wrapped mat. The signature is rendered in a black pigment with fluid, calligraphic strokes. Visible condition issues include minor staining or foxing on the white inner liner (bottom left) and some evidence of light surface dust. The overall style suggests a mid-20th-century decorative work, possibly influenced by or a later reproduction in the tradition of the French Vernet family of painters. The craftsmanship is professional, with the canvas showing a tight weave and stable paint surface with no immediate signs of cracking or flaking.