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Claude Louis Chatelet

View of Vesuvius Taken from Mont St. Angelo, with a Camaldolite Monastery, 1770-1786

Description

Maker

  • Claude Louis Chatelet, 1753-1794, French

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

Materials

  • wash technique,
  • watercolor

Supports

  • paper

Dimensions

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

Type

  • Works on Paper,
  • Drawings and Watercolors

Credit

Museum Appropriation Fund

Object Number

38.162

Projects & Publications

Publications

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

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Distant Climes

September 1, 2011 - June 3, 2012

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

September 2 - October 16, 1983

French Master Drawings

May 1-30, 1954

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