Home Online catalogues True to Nature. Open-air Painting 1780-1870 V. The Roman Campagna 72. Jules Coignet Paris 1798 – 1860 Paris During his first stay in Italy from 1824-27, Coignet was a member of the circle of plein air painters which included Corot. This view of Lake Nemi was painted on a second trip in 1843. Located in the Lazio region, some 30 km south of Rome, the small circular volcanic lake was known in antiquity (…) 73. Jean-Joseph-Xavier Bidauld Carpentras 1758 – 1846 Montmorency Having arrived in Italy in 1785, Bidauld was a true pioneer of plein air painting and helped establish the sketching routes that were to be used by artists in the decades that followed, making excursions throughout the Roman Campagna, the hill towns of Subiaco, Narni, Civita Castellana, and (…) 74. Jean-Achille Benouville Paris 1815 – 1891 Paris A student of Leon Cogniet (1794–1880), Jean-Achille Benouville first visited Italy in 1837. He was a friend of Corot and the two artists shared a studio in Rome in 1843. Benouville would go on to win the Prix de Rome for historical landscape in 1845 and spend the following two decades in Italy. (…) 75. Achille-Etna Michallon Paris 1796 – 1822 Paris As the pupil of Valenciennes and teacher of Corot, Michallon is a crucial link in the story of plein air painting, despite his untimely death at the age of twenty-five. In 1817, he won the inaugural Prix de Rome for historical landscape and lived in Rome for three years between 1818-21. In the (…) 76. Leon Fleury Paris 1804 – 1858 Paris Like Caruelle d’Aligny (cat. 77), Fleury would also benefit from Corot’s experiments en plein air and accompany him on sketching expeditions. Their technique and style were so similar that their oil sketches were confused by contemporaries. He arrived in Rome in 1827, after studying with Bertin (…) 77. Théodore Caruelle d’Aligny Chaumes 1798 – 1871 Lyon Caruelle d’Aligny arrived in Rome in 1822, and spent the next five years travelling all over Italy. He is joined by Corot in 1825, and the two become fast friends and work companions. The first to recognise his talent, Caruelle d’Aligny is said to have silenced a group of artists who, gathered (…) 78. Camille Corot Paris 1796 – 1875 Paris Corot set off for Italy in late 1825 and arrived in Rome by December that year. The inscription fevrier 1826, scratched into the still-wet paint in the lower right corner, confirms that this study was made entirely en plein air and makes it one of the earliest firmly dated oil sketches from his (…) 79. Johann Martin von Rohden Kassel 1778 – 1868 Rome Von Rohden studied at the Academy in Kassel, and was only seventeen when he first went to Rome. He returned in 1802 and would spend most of his life in Italy where he was instrumental in the creation of the German Academy in Rome and among the first Germans to paint out-of-doors. This view of (…) 80. Johan Thomas Lundbye Kalundborg, Denmark 1818 – 1848 Bedstedt, Denmark Born into a military family, Lundbye studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen, where he was strongly influenced by the slightly older Eckersberg students and their poetic naturalism. He was a pioneer of the National Romantic landscape movement, which privileged views of the Danish (…) 81. Jean-Joseph-Xavier Bidauld Carpentras 1758 – 1846 Montmorency In this study, Bidauld demonstrates his obvious understanding of how light plays across a mountainous landscape. The exceptional clarity of detail he is able to achieve is the result of his fastidious approach to working out-of-doors, which stands in stark contrast to the rapid, sketchy studies (…) 82. Franz Ludwig Catel, attributed to Berlin 1778 – 1856 Rome The Ponte Nomentano crosses the river Aniene to the northeast of Rome, interrupting an otherwise bare landscape and making it a particularly appealing motif for many painters from Joseph Wright of Derby (1734–1797) to Corot. In this study of the bridge set against the purple Sabine hills, the (…) 83. Michel Dumas Lyon 1812 – 1885 Lyon Michel Dumas trained at the École des Beaux-Arts in Lyon, and moved to Paris in 1834 to join the studio of Ingres shortly before the master left to take up the post of director of the French Academy in Rome. Dumas would eventually join Ingres in Rome in 1838, after working on the decoration of (…)
Home Online catalogues True to Nature. Open-air Painting 1780-1870 V. The Roman Campagna 72. Jules Coignet Paris 1798 – 1860 Paris During his first stay in Italy from 1824-27, Coignet was a member of the circle of plein air painters which included Corot. This view of Lake Nemi was painted on a second trip in 1843. Located in the Lazio region, some 30 km south of Rome, the small circular volcanic lake was known in antiquity (…) 73. Jean-Joseph-Xavier Bidauld Carpentras 1758 – 1846 Montmorency Having arrived in Italy in 1785, Bidauld was a true pioneer of plein air painting and helped establish the sketching routes that were to be used by artists in the decades that followed, making excursions throughout the Roman Campagna, the hill towns of Subiaco, Narni, Civita Castellana, and (…) 74. Jean-Achille Benouville Paris 1815 – 1891 Paris A student of Leon Cogniet (1794–1880), Jean-Achille Benouville first visited Italy in 1837. He was a friend of Corot and the two artists shared a studio in Rome in 1843. Benouville would go on to win the Prix de Rome for historical landscape in 1845 and spend the following two decades in Italy. (…) 75. Achille-Etna Michallon Paris 1796 – 1822 Paris As the pupil of Valenciennes and teacher of Corot, Michallon is a crucial link in the story of plein air painting, despite his untimely death at the age of twenty-five. In 1817, he won the inaugural Prix de Rome for historical landscape and lived in Rome for three years between 1818-21. In the (…) 76. Leon Fleury Paris 1804 – 1858 Paris Like Caruelle d’Aligny (cat. 77), Fleury would also benefit from Corot’s experiments en plein air and accompany him on sketching expeditions. Their technique and style were so similar that their oil sketches were confused by contemporaries. He arrived in Rome in 1827, after studying with Bertin (…) 77. Théodore Caruelle d’Aligny Chaumes 1798 – 1871 Lyon Caruelle d’Aligny arrived in Rome in 1822, and spent the next five years travelling all over Italy. He is joined by Corot in 1825, and the two become fast friends and work companions. The first to recognise his talent, Caruelle d’Aligny is said to have silenced a group of artists who, gathered (…) 78. Camille Corot Paris 1796 – 1875 Paris Corot set off for Italy in late 1825 and arrived in Rome by December that year. The inscription fevrier 1826, scratched into the still-wet paint in the lower right corner, confirms that this study was made entirely en plein air and makes it one of the earliest firmly dated oil sketches from his (…) 79. Johann Martin von Rohden Kassel 1778 – 1868 Rome Von Rohden studied at the Academy in Kassel, and was only seventeen when he first went to Rome. He returned in 1802 and would spend most of his life in Italy where he was instrumental in the creation of the German Academy in Rome and among the first Germans to paint out-of-doors. This view of (…) 80. Johan Thomas Lundbye Kalundborg, Denmark 1818 – 1848 Bedstedt, Denmark Born into a military family, Lundbye studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen, where he was strongly influenced by the slightly older Eckersberg students and their poetic naturalism. He was a pioneer of the National Romantic landscape movement, which privileged views of the Danish (…) 81. Jean-Joseph-Xavier Bidauld Carpentras 1758 – 1846 Montmorency In this study, Bidauld demonstrates his obvious understanding of how light plays across a mountainous landscape. The exceptional clarity of detail he is able to achieve is the result of his fastidious approach to working out-of-doors, which stands in stark contrast to the rapid, sketchy studies (…) 82. Franz Ludwig Catel, attributed to Berlin 1778 – 1856 Rome The Ponte Nomentano crosses the river Aniene to the northeast of Rome, interrupting an otherwise bare landscape and making it a particularly appealing motif for many painters from Joseph Wright of Derby (1734–1797) to Corot. In this study of the bridge set against the purple Sabine hills, the (…) 83. Michel Dumas Lyon 1812 – 1885 Lyon Michel Dumas trained at the École des Beaux-Arts in Lyon, and moved to Paris in 1834 to join the studio of Ingres shortly before the master left to take up the post of director of the French Academy in Rome. Dumas would eventually join Ingres in Rome in 1838, after working on the decoration of (…)