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Pierre Henri de Valenciennes
(6th Dec, 1750 - 16th Feb, 1819)
Vue des environs de Monte Porzio Catone
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Photo (C) Musée du Louvre, Dist. RMN-Grand Palais / Laurent Chastel
musée du Louvre
http://www.louvre.fr
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Keywords:
leafy tree
landscape
annotation
city
sketchbook
étude de paysage
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About the artwork
Title:
Vue des environs de Monte Porzio Catone
Periods:
contemporary period from 1789 until 1914
18th century
19th century
XVIIIth century
XIXth century
Techniques:
blacklead
Dimensions:
307 x 105
Inventory number:
RF12965-66-folio63
Detail:
Album Valenciennes Pierre -1- Folio 63 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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