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Pierre Henri de Valenciennes
(6th Dec, 1750 - 16th Feb, 1819)
Page blanche; Vue des environs du palais Barberini
1778
Credit:
Photo (C) Musée du Louvre, Dist. RMN-Grand Palais
musée du Louvre
http://www.louvre.fr
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Keywords:
residence (home)
étude de paysage
annotation
city
sketchbook
relevé architectural
cypress (tree)
urban landscape
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About the artwork
Title:
Page blanche; Vue des environs du palais Barberini
Periods:
18th century
modern age
XVIIIth century
Techniques:
brown ink
blacklead
pen (drawing)
wash with brown
Dimensions:
273 x 97
Inventory number:
RF12966-folio21; RF12966-24-folio22
Detail:
Album Valenciennes Pierre -2- Folio 21 verso et Folio 22 dessiné au recto
Location:
musée du Louvre
About the author(s)
Author:
Pierre Henri de Valenciennes
Born:
6th Dec, 1750
Dead:
16th Feb, 1819
Country:
France
See more about this author on Wikipedia:
Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes
(December 6, 1750 – February 16, 1819) was a French painter. Valenciennes worked in Rome from 1778 to 1782, where he made a number of landscape studies directly from nature, sometimes painting the same set of trees or house at different times of day. He theorized on this idea in his 1800 treatise
Reflections and Advice to a Student on Painting, Particularly on Landscape
, developing a concept of a "landscape portrait" in which the artist paints a landscape directly…
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