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Claude Louis Chatelet

View of Vesuvius Taken from Mont St. Angelo, with a Camaldolite Monastery

Maker

Claude Louis Chatelet (French, 1753-1794)

Title

View of Vesuvius Taken from Mont St. Angelo, with a Camaldolite Monastery

Year

1770-1786

Medium

  • Pen and ink and brush and brown wash with touches of watercolor on laid paper

Materials/Techniques

Techniques

  • Pen and ink and brush and brown wash with touches of watercolor on laid paper

Materials

wash technique, watercolor

Supports

  • paper

Dimensions

34.9 x 46.4 cm (13 3/4 x 18 1/4 inches)

Credit / Object Number

Credit

Museum Appropriation Fund

Object Number

38.162

Type

  • Drawings and Watercolors

Publications

  • Books

Old Master Drawings from the Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design

Alt Author: Johnson, Deborah J.

Exhibition History

Distant Climes
18th-Century British Views of Italy
Sep 01, 2011 – Jun 03, 2012

Label copy

The French artist Claude Louis Chatelet traveled to Italy from Paris while working on drawings for the publication Voyage pittoresque ou description des royaumes de Naples et de Sicilie (Picturesque Journey and Description of the Kingdoms of Naples and Sicily), an illustrated topographical volume by the Abbé de Saint-Non made for the French audience (Paris, 1781-1786). This drawing is related to one of the final prints made for the volume. Chatelet’s grounding in topographical drawing-whose conventions were transferred to France from both Great Britain and the Netherlands-is evident in his careful pen work and monochromatic use of wash, as well as his treatment of the subject. He relegated the then-active Vesuvius to the background, almost obscuring it in the haze of a sunny summer day, and focused instead on the hilltop monastery and the peasants below.

Old Master Drawings
Sep 02, 1983 – Oct 16, 1983
French Master Drawings
May 01, 1954 – May 30, 1954

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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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Claude Louis Chatelet (French, 1753-1794)
View of Vesuvius Taken from Mont St. Angelo, with a Camaldolite Monastery, 1770-1786
Pen and ink and brush and brown wash with touches of watercolor on laid paper
34.9 x 46.4 cm (13 3/4 x 18 1/4 inches)
Museum Appropriation Fund 38.162

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