Castel Sant'Angelo and the Tiber, Rome
Castel Sant'Angelo and the Tiber, Rome is an oil-on-canvas painting made by French artist Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, between 1826 and 1828. Its a veduta which depicts the cityscape formed by the Castel Sant'Angelo and the Tiber River, in Rome, Italy. It is held at the Louvre, in Paris. Corot signed it, at the bottom left.[1][2]
Description
The painting was one of the several that Corot did of the same subject during a stay in Rome in his youth. It depicts a view of Rome, largely occupied by the Tiber River, in the foreground, while the Castel Sant'Angelo is seen at the center left. It also shows a bridge that crosses the river and several buildings on the right. The painter used loose brushstrokes in the canvas in a technique that seems sketchy or even pre-impressionistic.[3]
Provenance
The painting was offered by the French painter and art collector Étienne Moreau-Nélaton, to the Louvre in 1906.[4]
References
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- The Bridge at Narni (1826)
- Castel Sant'Angelo and the Tiber, Rome (1826-1828)
- The Cathedral of Chartres (1830)
- Hagar in the Wilderness (1835)
- View of Volterra (1838)
- View of Venice: The Piazzetta Seen from the Riva degli Schiavoni (c. 1835-1845)
- The Harbor of La Rochelle (1851)
- Le Concert Champêtre (1858)
- Souvenir de Mortefontaine (1864)
- Ville-d'Avray (1865)
- A Woman Reading (1869)
- Sibylle (c. 1870)
- Marie-Françoise Corot (mother)
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