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Pierre Henri de Valenciennes
(6th Dec, 1750 - 16th Feb, 1819)
Vue du Colisée
Credit:
Photo (C) RMN-Grand Palais / Stéphane Maréchalle
musée du Louvre
http://www.louvre.fr
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Credit:
Photo (C) RMN-Grand Palais / Christian Jean
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cloud
Roman circus
landscape
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About the artwork
Title:
Vue du Colisée
Periods:
contemporary period from 1789 until 1914
18th century
19th century
XVIIIth century
XIXth century
Techniques:
oil on canvas
Dimensions:
250 x 380
Inventory number:
RF2945
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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