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Louis-Jules-Frédéric Villeneuve

View of a Roman Aqueduct, near Tivoli
Now On View

Maker

Louis-Jules-Frédéric Villeneuve (1796 - 1842)

Title

View of a Roman Aqueduct, near Tivoli

Year

1827

Medium

  • Oil on canvas

Materials/Techniques

Techniques

  • Oil on canvas

Materials

oil paint

Supports

  • canvas

Geography

Place Made: France; Place Made: Italy

Dimensions

50.8 x 61 x 8.3 cm (20 x 24 x 3 1/4 inches) (frame) updated during painting inventory project 12/1/04

Signature / Inscription / Marks

signed lower right "Villeneuve"; indistinctly dated lower right either 1827 or 1829

Credit / Object Number

Credit

Gift of Elizabeth Wahle, RISD BFA 1966

Object Number

1998.35

Type

  • Paintings

Provenance

Elizabeth Wahle, Somerville, MA. by 1984; bequeathed to the above by
Estate of Agnes Goldman Sanborn, Cambridge, MA

Exhibition History

European Galleries
Sep 02, 2017

Label copy

In the early 1800s, many European artists were drawn to the remains of ancient Roman aqueducts that dot the landscape around Tivoli. Villeneuve dramatized this ruin’s sun-struck stone and romantic overgrowth with a background of clouds and rising mists. Monumentality is emphasized by the scale of the people who approach the lower arch on a roadway.

Skilled as both painter and printmaker, Villeneuve often reproduced his own work. He published this painting as a lithograph the same year that he painted it. The commercial success of his prints indicates the importance of landscape views to a wider audience of armchair tourists and nature lovers.

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Public Domain This object is in the Public Domain and available under a CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) Public Domain Dedication

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Louis-Jules-Frédéric Villeneuve (1796 - 1842)
View of a Roman Aqueduct, near Tivoli, 1827
Oil on canvas
50.8 x 61 x 8.3 cm (20 x 24 x 3 1/4 inches) (frame) updated during painting inventory project 12/1/04
Gift of Elizabeth Wahle, RISD BFA 1966 1998.35

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