Village on the Island of Ischia

c. 1826

Sébastien-Louis-Guillaume Norblin de la Gourdaine

Associated Names
Sébastien-Louis-Guillaume Norblin de la Gourdaine

Painter, French, 1796 - 1884

This painting shows a landscape with tall green mountains filling the background. The mountains have gray, rocky peaks, above which is a strip of light blue sky. At the base of the mountains, small, square buildings in shades of white, gray, and faded terracotta sit on small hills among light brown and olive-green plants.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    oil on paper on canvas

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Frank Anderson Trapp

  • Dimensions

    overall: 27 x 32.8 cm (10 5/8 x 12 15/16 in.)
    framed: 43.8 x 49.5 x 7.6 cm (17 1/4 x 19 1/2 x 3 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2004.166.30

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

John Gere [d. 1995], London. (James Mackinnon, London); purchased 1996 by Frank Anderson Trapp [1922-2005], Pittsburgh; gift 2004 to NGA.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1996

  • Aspects of Landscape 1760-1880, James Mackinnon (London) at W.M. Brady & Co., Inc., New York, 1996, no. 22, repro.

Inscriptions

center of top stretcher bar: Etude Peinte a Ischia / par Norblin (fils, le graveur) / Prix de Rome; upper right on top stretcher bar, torn label on which was originally written text now on center of top stretcher bar; scratched in upper center of frame: NORBLIN

Wikidata ID

Q20185526

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