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RISDM 67-028.tif
  • RISDM 67-028.tif

François Edouard Bertin

San Saba, Rome

Description

Maker

François Edouard Bertin (French, 1797-1871)

Title

San Saba, Rome

Year

ca. 1822-1825

Medium

  • Graphite and chalk on tan wove paper

Materials/Techniques

Techniques

  • Graphite and chalk on tan wove paper

Materials

graphite, chalk

Supports

  • Tan wove paper

Dimensions

30.3 x 34.3 cm (11 15/16 x 13 1/2 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Artist's inscription in black ink, LR.

Credit / Object Number

Credit

Museum Membership Fund

Object Number

67.028

Type

  • Drawings and Watercolors

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Pilgrims of Beauty
Art and Inspiration in 19th-Century Italy
Feb 03, 2012 – Jul 08, 2012

Label copy

Early in his career the French artist François Edouard Bertin produced a large body of drawings that explore quiet and unpopulated spaces in the Italian countryside. Here we see the Church of San Saba, a rarely visited medieval parish in an obscure southern corner of Rome. Bertin typically framed his drawings with an arch, giving spiritual overtones to the landscape, and he often used a central path to draw viewers into his scenes. Like Corot and other French artists of his generation, he later explored the forest of Fountainbleau outside Paris in search of similar subjects.

New Acquisitions 1966-1967
Sep 01, 1967 – Oct 29, 1967

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François Edouard Bertin (French, 1797-1871)
San Saba, Rome, ca. 1822-1825
Graphite and chalk on tan wove paper
30.3 x 34.3 cm (11 15/16 x 13 1/2 inches)
Museum Membership Fund 67.028

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