Rome taken from Monte Mario
| Reference: | S20409 |
| Author | Victor Jean NICOLLE |
| Year: | 1790 ca. |
| Measures: | 200 x 135 mm |
€425.00
| Reference: | S20409 |
| Author | Victor Jean NICOLLE |
| Year: | 1790 ca. |
| Measures: | 200 x 135 mm |
€425.00
Description
Etchings, end on the XVIII century, signed on lower right.
Beautiful works, printed on contemporary laid paper with partial unidentified watermark, with full margins, in excellent condition.
Nicolle was a landscape painter and an expert in ancient ruins; he lived in Rome between 1787 an 1789 and again between 1806 and 1811. More than 150 watercolours of the main sites of the city have been catalogued. He also realized engravings with the same subjects.
Marigliani (cfr. p. 286): "E' uno dei tre panorami disegnati ed incisi dal Nicole che in questo caso usa come punto di osservazione i prati di castello alle pendici di Monte Mario. DI notevole raffinatezza incisoria e finalmente ritratto dal vero dopo che per quasi un secolo gli incisori Nord europeri avevano prodotto solo panorami copiati l'uno dall'altro con anacronismi ed errori di interpretazione talvolta grossolani. Sono ben riconoscibili i principali monumenti tra cui il Pantheon con le famose "orecchie" del Bernini. In primo piano a sinistra cinque personaggi conversano tra loro ed a destra autoritratto dell'autore mentre disegna il panorama. Firma a destra poco leggibile".
Very rare.
Literature
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C. Marigliani, "Le Piante di Roma delle collezioni private", tav. 208.
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Victor Jean NICOLLE (Parigi 1754 – 1826)
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Victor-Jean Nicolle (1754–1826) was born in the city of Paris . He revealed his talent for landscape compositions at an early age when, in 1771, as a pupil of the Royal School of Drawing he won the Perspective Prize. He acquired a passion for depicting the architecture of classical ruins and in pursuit of this passion he embarked on a journey throughout southern Europe - Italy ( Venice , Bologna , Florence , Naples and Rome ) as well as France .
Fascinated by Rome, he made two trips there, 1787–89 and 1806–11, to draw the buildings.
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Literature
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C. Marigliani, "Le Piante di Roma delle collezioni private", tav. 208.
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Victor Jean NICOLLE (Parigi 1754 – 1826)
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Victor-Jean Nicolle (1754–1826) was born in the city of Paris . He revealed his talent for landscape compositions at an early age when, in 1771, as a pupil of the Royal School of Drawing he won the Perspective Prize. He acquired a passion for depicting the architecture of classical ruins and in pursuit of this passion he embarked on a journey throughout southern Europe - Italy ( Venice , Bologna , Florence , Naples and Rome ) as well as France .
Fascinated by Rome, he made two trips there, 1787–89 and 1806–11, to draw the buildings.
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