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Description: | A reproduction produced by the Vasari Society of a drawing by Claude. The drawing is of a landscape, framed by a tree on the left and the edge of a building on the right. Plants are growing on the architecture, indicating that it is a ruin. A river runs through the centre of the landscape, and the land rises up on either side of it. Some buildings are visible high up in the distance. In the bottom left-hand corner two figures are looking out on the view; both are gesturing with their hands.
Text from the accompanying booklet produced by the Vasari Society:
"15.
CLAUDE
(b. 1600; d. 1682)
VIEW ON THE TIBER
Collection of Mr. Vernon Wethered. From the Richardson Collection. Pen and sepia with traces of black chalk beneath. 19.5 x 26.3 cm. (7 9/16 x 10 3/8 in.).
Inscribed 'al ponte rotte verso ripe grande fatto alle 2 di novembre 1673 Claudio fecit a Roma'.
Without this very precise description one would have felt inclined to attribute the view entirely to Claude's imagination. It is of course not a topographical view, though the wording of the inscription would lead one to suppose that it was executed on the spot. The ruin (right) and the tree (left) are no doubt due to Claude's convention of landscape composition, but the general configuration of the ground as seen from the left bank of the Tiber looking almost south toward the Aventine seems more or less correct (compare view in G. Vasi, Roma antica e moderna, Plate 96, Book 5). The height of the spot from which the view is taken seems exaggerated, as is that of the Aventine Hill.
A. E. P.
[Drawings 1459-1921. A Loan Exhibition, Goupil Gallery, 1922, No. 2.]"
Technique: REPRODUCTION
Reproduction by the Vasari Society of a drawing by Claude, View on the Tiber (LC 1131/15). | Source: | Manchester City Galleries | Identifier: | mcag.emu.ecatalogue.105379 | Go to resource |
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