Home Online catalogues True to Nature. Open-air Painting 1780-1870 121. Anonymous, possibly Simon Denis Antwerp 1755 – 1813 Naples Study of Clouds Unsigned oil sketches are notoriously difficult to attribute, and cloud studies such as these prove particularly challenging. The name Simon Denis is inscribed on the back of the thin wooden panel on which this fragment of sky was skilfully and rapidly painted, but this attribution is hard to substantiate.
Unsigned oil sketches are notoriously difficult to attribute, and cloud studies such as these prove particularly challenging. The name Simon Denis is inscribed on the back of the thin wooden panel on which this fragment of sky was skilfully and rapidly painted, but this attribution is hard to substantiate.