Skip to main content

Visit Main Menu Block

  • Hours & Admission
  • Accessibility & Amenities
  • Tours & Group Visits
  • Visitor Guidelines

Exhibitions and Events Main Menu Block

  • Exhibitions
  • Events

Art and Design Main Menu Block

  • The Collection
  • Projects & Publications
  • Past Exhibitions

Footer Main

  • Become a Member
  • Give
  • Who We Are
  • Opportunities
  • Rent the Museum

Image

Previous 1 2 / 2 Next

Louis-Jules-Frédéric Villeneuve

View of a Roman Aqueduct, near Tivoli, 1827

Now On View

Description

Maker

  • Louis-Jules-Frédéric Villeneuve, 1796 - 1842

Title

View of a Roman Aqueduct, near Tivoli

Year

1827

Medium

Oil on canvas

Materials/Techniques

Materials

  • oil paint

Supports

  • canvas

Dimensions

50.8 x 61 x 8.3 cm (20 x 24 x 3 5/16 inches) (frame) updated during painting inventory project 12/1/

Signature / Inscription / Marks

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

Place

France; Italy

Type

  • Paintings

Credit

Gift of Elizabeth Wahle, RISD BFA 1966

Object Number

1998.35

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

European Galleries

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.

Use

The images on this website can enable discovery and collaboration and support new scholarship, and we encourage their use. This object is in the public domain (CC0 1.0). This object is View of a Roman Aqueduct, near Tivoli with the accession number of 1998.35. To request high-resolution files or new photography, please send an email to imagerequest@risd.edu and include your name and the object's accession number.

Feedback

We view our online collection as a living documents, and our records are frequently revised and enhanced. If you have additional information or have spotted an error, please send feedback to curatorial@risd.edu.

RISD Museum

  •  Facebook
  •  Twitter
  •  Instagram
  •  Vimeo
  •  Pinterest
  •  SoundCloud

Footer Main

  • Become a Member
  • Give
  • Who We Are
  • Opportunities
  • Rent the Museum

Footer Secondary

  • Image Request
  • Press Office
  • Rent the Museum
  • Terms of Use