They are now in the Museo Soumaya in Mexico City and the Louvre in Paris.

[1] The two paintings form part of a series of fifteen works by Vernet showing port scenes.

They resemble the same painter's Night: Mediterranean Coastal Scene with Fishermen and Boats (1753).

The objects nearby reaffirm the environment in which they are found, and in parallel there are several people fishing.

In the background, the figure of the moon predominates, prolonged thanks to the pale light that is reflected on the tenuous waves of the liquid surface of the sea and among the clouds.