Mount Cairo from across the Melfa River

c. 1765/1766

Jean-Jacques de Boissieu

Associated Names
Jean-Jacques de Boissieu

Artist, French, 1736 - 1810

The image depicts a landscape with a horizon in the middle. There are hills or plains with trees, a mountain in the background, and a water body in the foreground with reflections. The artwork uses a monochromatic palette with delicate and fluid brushstrokes capturing the essence of the landscape. In the distance, two small figures on horseback are visible.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    brush and gray wash on laid paper; laid down

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    overall: 16.1 x 23.9 cm (6 5/16 x 9 7/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1990.42.1

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Baron de Malaussena (Lugt 1887)

Associated Names

Bibliography

1989

  • Thomas Le Claire, VI, 1989: 80-81.

2009

  • Grasselli, Margaret Morgan. Renaissance to Revolution: French Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, 1500-1800. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2009: 248, fig. 1.

Inscriptions

lower center in graphite: D[?] au bord de la Melfa sur la route De rome a Naple; by later hand lower right in pen and ink: 634

Wikidata ID

Q64581248

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