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Description: | This is the pendant to Landscape Near Rome in the McManus Galleries. Both paintings are in feigned ovals and feature an elevated viewpoint, dark massing in the foreground, a mountainous distance and silhouettes of birds in a clear sky. Here the water-surface is calmer; there are figures looking into the distance in the foreground and the flat middle-distance is studied with classical architecture. No narrative is attached to the figures other than the idea of human beings being in harmony with nature, recalling the idyllic life in Arcadia. Both paintings are inspired by the Roman countryside and indebted to Poussin. | Subjects: | landscape | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Dughet, Gaspard (French landscape painter, 1615-1675, active in Italy) Æ Attributed to school of | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8738... | Go to resource |
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