Wednesday, November 23, 2016

European landscapes from the 1820s at the Met

Johann Joachim Faber
Landscape at Olevano Romano
1825
Metropolitan Museum of Art

These European landscapes  more set in Italy than elsewhere  were created during the luminous 1820s. At present, all are located in New York at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Several paintings in this admirable sequence were recent gifts to the Museum from connoisseur and philanthropist Eugene V. Thaw.

Carl Rottman
River landscape with ruined castle
1820s
Metropolitan Museum of Art

Eugène Joseph Verboeckhoven
Mountainous landscape
1820s
Metropolitan Museum of Art

Gustaf Söderberg
Castel Sant' Angelo, Rome
1821
Metropolitan Museum of Art

André Claudian Giroux
Aqueduct near Rome
ca. 1826-29
Metropolitan Museum of Art

August Heinrich
The edge of a forest
ca. 1820
Metropolitan Museum of Art

Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot
 Landscape at Civita Castellana
ca. 1825-26
Metropolitan Museum of Art

Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot
Italian landscape
ca. 1825-28
Metropolitan Museum of Art

Unknown German painter
View from the Colosseum toward the Palatine Hill
ca. 1825
Metropolitan Museum of Art

Charles Rémond
Basilica of Constantine from the Palatine Hill
ca. 1822-25
Metropolitan Museum of Art

Joseph Anton Koch
Heroic landscape, with rainbow
1824
Metropolitan Museum of Art

Charles Rémond
The Colosseum and the Arch of Constantine, with Palatine Hill
1822-24
Metropolitan Museum of Art

Théodore Gericault
Alfred Dedreux as a child
ca. 1819-20
Metropolitan Museum of Art

Heinrich Reinhold
Terrace of the Capuchins at Sorrento
1823-24
Metropolitan Museum of Art