The Shipwreck is a 1772 maritime painting by the French artist Claude-Joseph Vernet.

Amidst a storm a ship is being wrecked on a rocky coastline.

Crew members and passengers attempt to save themselves by climbing down a rope from the Mast to the shore.

[1] It was a forerunner of Romanticism, a contrast to the ascendant Neoclassicism of the era.

Today the painting is in the collection of the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C..[3] His grandson Horace Vernet borrowed stylistically from the painting for his homage to his grandfather Joseph Vernet Tied to a Mast During a Storm, exhibited at the Salon of 1822 at the Louvre.