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Landscape with a Roman Ruin
Charles Cornelisz. de Hooch1620-38
Dulwich Picture Gallery
London, United Kingdom
Unlike its pair,A Ruined Temple(DPG 23) , the ruin in this picture has not so far been identified. Both paintings epitomise how the ‘first generation’ of Dutch Italianate artists revelled in the discovery of the picturesque qualities of the Roman campagna and its ruins. A typically Dutch element of this pair is the use of figures to inject an element of everyday life into scenes of decayed Roman grandeur – laundering in one, shepherding in the other.
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- Title: Landscape with a Roman Ruin
- Creator Lifespan: Active 1620 - 1638
- Date: 1620-38
- Physical Dimensions: w237 x h162 cm
- Type: Painting
- Medium: Oil
- Work Notes: The ruin may be based on the cetnral part of the Ponte Nomentana, Rome.A superior version is London, V&A, Apsley House. Appears to be based on drawings, formerly Sir R. Witt Coll. and Budapest, Museum of Fine Arts, inv. no. 1491Seal on back, not decipherable.
- Work Nationality: Dutch
- Support: Panel
- Provenance: London, Sir Francis Bourgeois, 1811; Bourgeois Bequest, 1811; 1813 inv., no. ?.
- Further Information: The crumbling circular temple portrayed in A Ruined Temple is seemingly an elaboration of the famous Temple of Vesta at Tivoli, while the ruined building in Landscape with aRoman Ruinmay be based on the central part of the Ponte Nomentana in Rome. There is a similar ruin in a drawing by Breenbergh dated 1626. It is uncertain whether De Hooch visited Italy or instead copied images by Breenbergh in attempt to assimilate the style of the first generation of Dutch Italianates without travelling beyond the Netherlands.
- Attributed to: de Hooch, Carel Cornelisz
- Acquisition Method: Bourgeois, Sir Peter Francis (Bequest, 1811)
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