Second View of the Agrigento Countryside

1778

Claude-Louis Châtelet

Associated Names
Claude-Louis Châtelet

Artist, French, 1749/1750 - 1795

The image shows a landscape with hills, valleys, a blue sky with clouds, distant mountains, a town or castle, people on a grassy cliff, a procession on a dirt path, and a lone tree. The painting uses delicate brushstrokes and a soft color palette of greens, blues, and earth tones.

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Julius Böhler, Munich). (Hermann Schickman Gallery, New York), 1966. Christian Humann [1929-1981]; (his estate sale, Sotheby's, New York, 30 April 1982, no. 49). GIft 1982 to the National Gallery of Art.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1966

  • Exhibition of Old Master Drawings. H. Shickman Gallery, New York, 1966, no. 58.

1983

  • Graphics Survey Exhibition, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., May 1983.

2009

  • Renaissance to Revolution: French Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, 1500-1800. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2009, 236-239, 290, no. 103b (color, p. 239).

Bibliography

1995

  • Lamers, Petra. Il viaggio nel sud dell'Abbé de Saint-Non. Il "Voyage pittoresque à Naples et en Sicile": La genesi, i disegni preparatori, le incisioni. Naples, 1995: 174, no. 131a, reprod. 173, fig. 131a.

Inscriptions

across bottom on mount in an unknown hand : Seconde Vue prise dans les Campagnes d'Agrigente--; lower right: Chatelet del.; across center verso by the abbé de Saint-Non: Sde Vue prise dans le Campagnes d'Agrigente / Chatelet; in a modern hand in graphite at lower right: 6484/Human and some mathematical calculations

Watermarks

fleur de lis

Wikidata ID

Q64540152

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