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Pierre Henri de Valenciennes
(6th Dec, 1750 - 16th Feb, 1819)
Sommet de deux arbres; Vue des environs du couvent des capucins à Rome
1778
Credit:
Photo (C) Musée du Louvre, Dist. RMN-Grand Palais
musée du Louvre
http://www.louvre.fr
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Keywords:
annotation
sketchbook
étude de paysage
monastery
cypress (tree)
relevé architectural
urban landscape
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About the artwork
Title:
Sommet de deux arbres; Vue des environs du couvent des capucins à Rome
Periods:
modern age
18th century
XVIIIth century
Techniques:
pen (drawing)
blacklead
wash with brown
brown ink
Dimensions:
273 x 97
Inventory number:
RF12966-21-folio19; RF12966-22-folio20
Detail:
Album Valenciennes Pierre -2- Folio 19 dessiné au verso et Folio 20 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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