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Landscape with Buffalo

Jean-Achille Benouvilleca. 1865-68

The Walters Art Museum

The Walters Art Museum
Baltimore, United States

Long-horned buffalo or oxen are being herded across a desolate stretch of the Roman Campagna. In the center of the scene juts a high outcrop of rock. Overhead, reeling in the dark sky, are some vultures.

The artist has applied the pigments in high impasto, utilizing a palette knife. The surface is further enriched with squiggly indentations made with the end of a brush-handle.

Giovanni Costa, an Italian artist noted for his views of the Campagna, listed in "Quel che Vidi e Quel che Intesi," Trèves, 1927, p. 122, a number of colleagues also drawn to the region including B├╢cklin, David, Plock, George Mason, Zäner, Lenbach, Wilde, and Charles Coleman as well as Benouville.

This picture is attributed to Benouville on the basis of similarities it exhibits in technique and format to a pair of landscapes belonging to the Heim Gallery, London (1978). The London pictures also show views of the Campagna, one with an aqueduct and the other with a herd of buffalo, and are inscribed with the artist's monogram "J A B" (conjoined) and are identified: "Rome 68" (in red).

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  • Title: Landscape with Buffalo
  • Creator: Jean Achille Benouville (French, 1815-1891)
  • Date Created: ca. 1865-68
  • External Link: For more information about this and thousands of other works of art in the Walters Art Museum collection, please visit art.thewalters.org
  • Roles: Artist: Jean Achille Benouville (French, 1815-1891)
  • Provenance: Don Marcello Massarenti Collection, Rome [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1902, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
  • Object Type: paintings
  • Medium: oil on canvas
  • Geography: Place Depicted: Campagna di Roma, Place Depicted: Campagna
  • Exhibitions: The Road to Impressionism: Barbizon Landscapes from the Walters Art Museum. The Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Memphis; The Frick Art & Historical Center, Pittsburgh. 2008-2009.
  • Dimensions: H: 15 3/4 x W: 31 3/4 in. (40 x 80.6 cm); Framed H: 23 1/2 x W: 39 3/8 x D: 4 15/16 in. (59.69 x 100 x 12.54 cm)
  • Credit Line: Acquired by Henry Walters with the Massarenti Collection, 1902
  • Classification: Painting & Drawing
  • Accession Number: 37.1209
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