Four Times of the Day: Morning, Joseph Vernet

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).

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

In the series of four paintings, the first depiction is entitled Morning. The painting shows a misty morning scene with fishermen with their boat. The second, entitled Midday depicts a sudden, unexpected storm. The painting Evening shows women bathing and washing their clothes. The final scene, Evening, shows a rocky inlet, with fishermen drying their nets while others are gathered round a fire. The scenes depicted in the paintings were Vernet's favourite scenes that he painted in different settings throughout his career.