Veduta du Circo Massimo

Reference: S20108
Author Victor Jean NICOLLE
Year: 1790 ca.
Measures: 205 x 140 mm
€425.00

Reference: S20108
Author Victor Jean NICOLLE
Year: 1790 ca.
Measures: 205 x 140 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.

Victor Jean NICOLLE (Parigi 1754 – 1826)

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.

Victor Jean NICOLLE (Parigi 1754 – 1826)

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.