Mountain Torrents Flooding a City

before 1839

Antonio Basoli

Associated Names
Antonio Basoli

Artist, Italian, 1774 - 1848

The image shows a landscape with cascading waterfalls, a city integrated into cliffs, jagged mountains, ancient architecture, loose and expressive brushstrokes, monochromatic sepia tones, figures in a boat on turbulent waters, and winding waterfalls leading to tall structures and rugged mountains.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen and brown ink with brown-gray wash over graphite on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    overall: 19.1 x 29.2 cm (7 1/2 x 11 1/2 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1994.9.3

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Wynne Jeudwine, 1963; Lodewijk Houthakker, Amsterdam (hand holding pen or brush, Lugt undescribed); (sale, Christie's, New York, 11 January 1994, no. 58); purchased by NGA, 1994.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1976

  • De achtergrond belicht. Ontwepen voor het theater 1580-1800, 's-Hertogenbosch and Amsterdam, 1976, no. 55.

2014

  • From Neoclassicism to Futurism: Italian Prints and Drawings, 1800- 1925, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2014 - 2015.

Bibliography

1989

  • Fuhring, Peter. Design into Art, Drawings for Architecture and Ornament: The Lodewijk Houthakker Collection. 2 vols. London, 1989: no. 934 (as a Deluge in Mountainous Country near a Town).

Inscriptions

artist's stamp, lower right verso: A. BASOLI FECE; across top verso in pen and brown ink: Acqua - Rottiera di un Torrente fra monti e città 10-

Wikidata ID

Q64536269

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