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Description: | Mount Vesuvius is shown erupting, an event which occurred six times in the eighteenth century. The eruption is dramatised against a night sky and for this reason the canvas was once attributed to Joseph Wright of Derby, who was renowned for unusual light effects and who produced several paintings on this subject. The painting is now recognised to be the work of Pierre-Jacques Volaire, a French artist who lived in Naples during the 1770s. Like Wright, Volaire probably witnessed the eruption of Vesuvius in 1771. Volaire's paintings of Vesuvius won him recognition across Europe, though little success in his native France. | Subjects: | landscape; history (eruption of Mount Vesuvius); place (Naples) | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Volaire, Pierre-Jacques (French painter, 1729-before 1802) Æ Attributed to Previously attributed to Wright, Joseph, of Derby (British painter, 1734-1797) Previously attributed to Wutki, Michael (German painter, 1738-1822) | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8751... | Go to resource |
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