Home Online catalogues True to Nature. Open-air Painting 1780-1870 IX. Rooftops, Windows, Yards and Ruins 132. Pierre-Antoine Demachy Paris 1723 - 1807 Paris Extremely rare, this is the only known oil sketch on paper securely attributed to the peintre d’architecture Pierre-Antoine Demachy. Infrared reflectography of the study permitted an analysis of the underdrawing, some of which is visible through the paint, and confirmed the attribution to the (…) 133. John Constable East Bergholt 1776 – 1837 London Constable moved permanently from Suffolk to London in 1817. His wife Maria had delicate health, and from 1819 the family spent their summers in Hampstead to benefit from the cleaner air. Some five miles north of London, Hampstead was still a village at the beginning of the nineteenth century. It (…) 134. Frederik Rohde Copenhagen 1816 – 1886 Copenhagen Rohde trained at the Academy in Copenhagen between 1830-34, where he was a student of J.L. Lund (1777–1867) and also sought guidance from Christen Købke (1810–1848). After receiving a bursary from the Academy, he travelled to Germany, Switzerland, the Tyrol and Italy between 1842-47. He spent (…) 135. Constantin Hansen Rome 1804 – 1880 Copenhagen Constantin Hansen was born in Rome and baptized in Vienna, where he was named after his godmother, Mozart’s widow, Constanze Weber (1762–1842). He was the son of the portrait painter Hans Hansen (1769–1828), who first encouraged him to paint. Hansen initially studied architecture, enrolling in (…) 136. Frederik Sødring Aalborg 1809 – 1862 Hellerup Sødring joined the Copenhagen Academy in 1825, studying alongside Christen Købke with whom he would later share a studio. He was strongly influenced by German Romantic landscape painting and the work of Johan Christian Dahl (cat. 14), having made his debut at Charlottenborg in 1828 with two (…) 137. Louis Jules Gustave Caron Paris 1806 – 1881 Bordeaux Jules Caron trained in Paris under Jean-Charles-Joseph Rémond (cat. 122). He later moved to Bordeaux, where he made these pendants in February 1852, before settling in the basin of Arcachon that same year. The earlier painting has the date 16 February 1852 scratched into the still-wet paint at (…) 138. Louis Jules Gustave Caron Paris 1806 – 1881 Bordeaux Jules Caron trained in Paris under Jean-Charles-Joseph Rémond (cat. 122). He later moved to Bordeaux, where he made these pendants in February 1852, before settling in the basin of Arcachon that same year. The earlier painting has the date 16 February 1852 scratched into the still-wet paint at (…) 139. Théodore Rousseau Paris 1812 – 1867 Barbizon Rousseau also studied under Jean-Charles-Joseph Rémond (cat. 122), whose workshop he joined in late 1826 shortly after the master’s return from Italy. The young artist famously found his teacher’s neoclassical aesthetic rather unappealing, though he was greatly inspired by Rémond’s Italian plein (…) 140. Théodore Rousseau Paris 1812 – 1867 Barbizon Rousseau also studied under Jean-Charles-Joseph Rémond (cat. 122), whose workshop he joined in late 1826 shortly after the master’s return from Italy. The young artist famously found his teacher’s neoclassical aesthetic rather unappealing, though he was greatly inspired by Rémond’s Italian plein (…) 141. Théodore Rousseau Paris 1812 – 1867 Barbizon Rousseau also studied under Jean-Charles-Joseph Rémond (cat. 122), whose workshop he joined in late 1826 shortly after the master’s return from Italy. The young artist famously found his teacher’s neoclassical aesthetic rather unappealing, though he was greatly inspired by Rémond’s Italian plein (…) 142. Max Hauschild Dresden 1810 – 1895 Naples Hauschild enrolled in the architecture school of the Dresden Academy in 1826, where he was also a teaching assistant between 1838-52. He first travelled to Italy in 1833, returning in 1841 and 1846, and eventually settled in Naples after leaving his teaching post in Dresden. Hauschild (…) 143. Johan Thomas Lundbye Kalundborg, Denmark 1818 – 1848 Bedstedt, Denmark In the first entry of his journal of 1842-43, Lundbye wrote that, as a painter, he had set as his life goal to “paint dear Denmark, but with all the simplicity and humbleness that is so characteristic of it”. Apart from a brief journey to Italy in 1845-46, the artist spent his short life (…) 144. Robert Léopold Leprince Paris 1800 – 1847 Chartres This unassuming view of a farm courtyard by Robert Léopold Leprince is wonderfully rich with detail. The artist clearly delighted in the colours and textures of the rustic stone building, and the spring-green leaves give the picture a remarkable freshness. The scene’s only inhabitant is a dog, (…) 145. Auguste-Xavier Leprince Paris 1799 – 1826 Nice Robert Léopold’s older brother and teacher, Auguste-Xavier Leprince was mostly known as a genre painter, though he tackled a range of subjects including portraits, Parisian street scenes and rural landscapes. Already at the age of eighteen his works sold for exorbitant prices on the Paris art (…) 146. Thomas Fearnley Frederikshald, now Halden 1802 – 1842 Munich Some 20 km northwest of Dresden, Scharfenberg is one of the oldest castles in Saxony and was a favourite destination of the German Romantics in the early nineteenth century. Here, Fearnley omits any grand views of the medieval fortification or the surrounding Elbe river valley, and focuses (…) 147. Walter Moras Berlin 1856 – 1925 Bad Harzburg Walter Moras studied under the landscape and marine painter Hermann Eschke (1823–1900), who encouraged him to travel and paint en plein air. He went on a study trip to Norway when he was eighteen, a favourite destination for German painters at the time, who preferred the wild Nordic landscapes (…) 148. François-Marius Granet, attributed to Aix-en-Provence 1775 – 1849 Aix-en-Provence This view has been attributed to Granet thanks to a signed watercolour of the same courtyard recently on the market.1 The watercolour is populated by monks, suggesting that this is the interior of a monastery. Nicknamed le moine by his friends, religious buildings were a central motif in (…) 149. Léon Fleury, attributed to Paris 1804 – 1858 Paris A decade ago, this view of a ruined abbey appeared in a sale as the work of an unknown artist in the circle of Corot, and it is now attributed to Léon Fleury. There are indeed a lot of similarities in the technique and style of the two artists, and their oil sketches were often confused by (…) 150. Eugène Isabey, attributed to Paris 1803 – 1886 Montévrain, Seine-et-Marne This painting has tentatively been attributed to Isabey on stylistic grounds. Though the paint is rather thin in the sky and clouds, it has a lot of structure throughout and is applied in a manner reminiscent of the artist’s landscapes and city views. The assured way with which the paint is used (…) 151. Augustus Leopold Egg London 1816 – 1863 Algiers Best known for his celebrated triptych Past and Present (Tate, London), the Victorian painter Augustus Egg studied at the Royal Academy Schools. There he became a member of The Clique, a short-lived informal society of artists which included Richard Dadd (1817–1886). Unlike the other members, (…) 152. Augustus Leopold Egg London 1816 – 1863 Algiers Best known for his celebrated triptych Past and Present (Tate, London), the Victorian painter Augustus Egg studied at the Royal Academy Schools. There he became a member of The Clique, a short-lived informal society of artists which included Richard Dadd (1817–1886). Unlike the other members, (…) 153. Vilhelm Peter Carl Petersen Copenhagen 1812 – 1880 Copenhagen Vilhelm Petersen’s reputation as an artist has only recently been re-established, thanks in large part to his plein air landscape studies. He joined the Academy in Copenhagen in 1831, where he trained under Eckersberg and Lund. After receiving a travel bursary, he toured through the Netherlands, (…) 154. Eduard Pape Berlin 1817 – 1905 Berlin The son of a porcelain painter, Pape became a pupil of Carl Blechen (cat. 57) at the Berlin Academy. He would later comment on the painting trips he undertook with his professor, which were “filled with play and enjoyment. [Blechen] sketched ancient trees in an inspired manner, his hand sure and (…) 155. Hein Burgers Huissen (Lingewaard) 1834 – 1899 Paris A pupil of the famous Hague School painter Jozef Israëls (1824–1911), the Dutchman Hein Burgers trained at the Academies of Amsterdam and Rotterdam before settling more or less permanently in Paris in 1867. His official exhibition pictures were genre scenes with a significant narrative element, (…) 156. Théophile-Narcisse Chauvel Paris 1831 – 1909 Paris Théophile-Narcisse Chauvel is mostly remembered as a printmaker, and found great success during his lifetime with reproductive etchings after the work of artists of the Barbizon school, most notably Corot and Rousseau. Chauvel began sketching in the forest of Fontainebleau when he was eighteen (…) 157. Anonymous French Neither the artist nor the location of this view have been securely identified, though the anonymous painter clearly delighted in the rhythm produced by the chimneys and rooftops under the dull-grey sky.
Home Online catalogues True to Nature. Open-air Painting 1780-1870 IX. Rooftops, Windows, Yards and Ruins 132. Pierre-Antoine Demachy Paris 1723 - 1807 Paris Extremely rare, this is the only known oil sketch on paper securely attributed to the peintre d’architecture Pierre-Antoine Demachy. Infrared reflectography of the study permitted an analysis of the underdrawing, some of which is visible through the paint, and confirmed the attribution to the (…) 133. John Constable East Bergholt 1776 – 1837 London Constable moved permanently from Suffolk to London in 1817. His wife Maria had delicate health, and from 1819 the family spent their summers in Hampstead to benefit from the cleaner air. Some five miles north of London, Hampstead was still a village at the beginning of the nineteenth century. It (…) 134. Frederik Rohde Copenhagen 1816 – 1886 Copenhagen Rohde trained at the Academy in Copenhagen between 1830-34, where he was a student of J.L. Lund (1777–1867) and also sought guidance from Christen Købke (1810–1848). After receiving a bursary from the Academy, he travelled to Germany, Switzerland, the Tyrol and Italy between 1842-47. He spent (…) 135. Constantin Hansen Rome 1804 – 1880 Copenhagen Constantin Hansen was born in Rome and baptized in Vienna, where he was named after his godmother, Mozart’s widow, Constanze Weber (1762–1842). He was the son of the portrait painter Hans Hansen (1769–1828), who first encouraged him to paint. Hansen initially studied architecture, enrolling in (…) 136. Frederik Sødring Aalborg 1809 – 1862 Hellerup Sødring joined the Copenhagen Academy in 1825, studying alongside Christen Købke with whom he would later share a studio. He was strongly influenced by German Romantic landscape painting and the work of Johan Christian Dahl (cat. 14), having made his debut at Charlottenborg in 1828 with two (…) 137. Louis Jules Gustave Caron Paris 1806 – 1881 Bordeaux Jules Caron trained in Paris under Jean-Charles-Joseph Rémond (cat. 122). He later moved to Bordeaux, where he made these pendants in February 1852, before settling in the basin of Arcachon that same year. The earlier painting has the date 16 February 1852 scratched into the still-wet paint at (…) 138. Louis Jules Gustave Caron Paris 1806 – 1881 Bordeaux Jules Caron trained in Paris under Jean-Charles-Joseph Rémond (cat. 122). He later moved to Bordeaux, where he made these pendants in February 1852, before settling in the basin of Arcachon that same year. The earlier painting has the date 16 February 1852 scratched into the still-wet paint at (…) 139. Théodore Rousseau Paris 1812 – 1867 Barbizon Rousseau also studied under Jean-Charles-Joseph Rémond (cat. 122), whose workshop he joined in late 1826 shortly after the master’s return from Italy. The young artist famously found his teacher’s neoclassical aesthetic rather unappealing, though he was greatly inspired by Rémond’s Italian plein (…) 140. Théodore Rousseau Paris 1812 – 1867 Barbizon Rousseau also studied under Jean-Charles-Joseph Rémond (cat. 122), whose workshop he joined in late 1826 shortly after the master’s return from Italy. The young artist famously found his teacher’s neoclassical aesthetic rather unappealing, though he was greatly inspired by Rémond’s Italian plein (…) 141. Théodore Rousseau Paris 1812 – 1867 Barbizon Rousseau also studied under Jean-Charles-Joseph Rémond (cat. 122), whose workshop he joined in late 1826 shortly after the master’s return from Italy. The young artist famously found his teacher’s neoclassical aesthetic rather unappealing, though he was greatly inspired by Rémond’s Italian plein (…) 142. Max Hauschild Dresden 1810 – 1895 Naples Hauschild enrolled in the architecture school of the Dresden Academy in 1826, where he was also a teaching assistant between 1838-52. He first travelled to Italy in 1833, returning in 1841 and 1846, and eventually settled in Naples after leaving his teaching post in Dresden. Hauschild (…) 143. Johan Thomas Lundbye Kalundborg, Denmark 1818 – 1848 Bedstedt, Denmark In the first entry of his journal of 1842-43, Lundbye wrote that, as a painter, he had set as his life goal to “paint dear Denmark, but with all the simplicity and humbleness that is so characteristic of it”. Apart from a brief journey to Italy in 1845-46, the artist spent his short life (…) 144. Robert Léopold Leprince Paris 1800 – 1847 Chartres This unassuming view of a farm courtyard by Robert Léopold Leprince is wonderfully rich with detail. The artist clearly delighted in the colours and textures of the rustic stone building, and the spring-green leaves give the picture a remarkable freshness. The scene’s only inhabitant is a dog, (…) 145. Auguste-Xavier Leprince Paris 1799 – 1826 Nice Robert Léopold’s older brother and teacher, Auguste-Xavier Leprince was mostly known as a genre painter, though he tackled a range of subjects including portraits, Parisian street scenes and rural landscapes. Already at the age of eighteen his works sold for exorbitant prices on the Paris art (…) 146. Thomas Fearnley Frederikshald, now Halden 1802 – 1842 Munich Some 20 km northwest of Dresden, Scharfenberg is one of the oldest castles in Saxony and was a favourite destination of the German Romantics in the early nineteenth century. Here, Fearnley omits any grand views of the medieval fortification or the surrounding Elbe river valley, and focuses (…) 147. Walter Moras Berlin 1856 – 1925 Bad Harzburg Walter Moras studied under the landscape and marine painter Hermann Eschke (1823–1900), who encouraged him to travel and paint en plein air. He went on a study trip to Norway when he was eighteen, a favourite destination for German painters at the time, who preferred the wild Nordic landscapes (…) 148. François-Marius Granet, attributed to Aix-en-Provence 1775 – 1849 Aix-en-Provence This view has been attributed to Granet thanks to a signed watercolour of the same courtyard recently on the market.1 The watercolour is populated by monks, suggesting that this is the interior of a monastery. Nicknamed le moine by his friends, religious buildings were a central motif in (…) 149. Léon Fleury, attributed to Paris 1804 – 1858 Paris A decade ago, this view of a ruined abbey appeared in a sale as the work of an unknown artist in the circle of Corot, and it is now attributed to Léon Fleury. There are indeed a lot of similarities in the technique and style of the two artists, and their oil sketches were often confused by (…) 150. Eugène Isabey, attributed to Paris 1803 – 1886 Montévrain, Seine-et-Marne This painting has tentatively been attributed to Isabey on stylistic grounds. Though the paint is rather thin in the sky and clouds, it has a lot of structure throughout and is applied in a manner reminiscent of the artist’s landscapes and city views. The assured way with which the paint is used (…) 151. Augustus Leopold Egg London 1816 – 1863 Algiers Best known for his celebrated triptych Past and Present (Tate, London), the Victorian painter Augustus Egg studied at the Royal Academy Schools. There he became a member of The Clique, a short-lived informal society of artists which included Richard Dadd (1817–1886). Unlike the other members, (…) 152. Augustus Leopold Egg London 1816 – 1863 Algiers Best known for his celebrated triptych Past and Present (Tate, London), the Victorian painter Augustus Egg studied at the Royal Academy Schools. There he became a member of The Clique, a short-lived informal society of artists which included Richard Dadd (1817–1886). Unlike the other members, (…) 153. Vilhelm Peter Carl Petersen Copenhagen 1812 – 1880 Copenhagen Vilhelm Petersen’s reputation as an artist has only recently been re-established, thanks in large part to his plein air landscape studies. He joined the Academy in Copenhagen in 1831, where he trained under Eckersberg and Lund. After receiving a travel bursary, he toured through the Netherlands, (…) 154. Eduard Pape Berlin 1817 – 1905 Berlin The son of a porcelain painter, Pape became a pupil of Carl Blechen (cat. 57) at the Berlin Academy. He would later comment on the painting trips he undertook with his professor, which were “filled with play and enjoyment. [Blechen] sketched ancient trees in an inspired manner, his hand sure and (…) 155. Hein Burgers Huissen (Lingewaard) 1834 – 1899 Paris A pupil of the famous Hague School painter Jozef Israëls (1824–1911), the Dutchman Hein Burgers trained at the Academies of Amsterdam and Rotterdam before settling more or less permanently in Paris in 1867. His official exhibition pictures were genre scenes with a significant narrative element, (…) 156. Théophile-Narcisse Chauvel Paris 1831 – 1909 Paris Théophile-Narcisse Chauvel is mostly remembered as a printmaker, and found great success during his lifetime with reproductive etchings after the work of artists of the Barbizon school, most notably Corot and Rousseau. Chauvel began sketching in the forest of Fontainebleau when he was eighteen (…) 157. Anonymous French Neither the artist nor the location of this view have been securely identified, though the anonymous painter clearly delighted in the rhythm produced by the chimneys and rooftops under the dull-grey sky.