Andrea Locatelli
Rocky Landscape with a Natural Arch and a Distant Tower
About this artwork
Locatelli was one of the foremost painters of classical landscape in eighteenth-century Rome. His idealising style and his repertoire of motifs derive from the leading landscape painters of the previous century, notably Nicolas Poussin, Claude Lorrain and Gaspard Dughet. The long, narrow format of this painting and its pair indicates that they were made as overdoors.
Updated before 2020
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artist:Andrea Locatelli (1695 - 1741) Italian
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title:Rocky Landscape with a Natural Arch and a Distant Tower
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date created:About 1730s
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materials:Oil on canvas
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measurements:18.50 x 108.20 cm; Framed: 29.00 x 119.00 x 6.50 cm
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credit line:Presented by the Trustees of Sir Denis Mahon's Charitable Trust through Art Fund, 2012
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accession number:NG 2849
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Andrea Locatelli
Andrea Locatelli
Locatelli was one of the most successful Roman landscape and view painters of the early eighteenth century. At the height of his career was much in demand, patronised by such distinguished Roman noble families as the Ruspoli, Ottoboni, Albani and Colonna, but he reportedly died in poverty. Two...
