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Frascati, Near Rome

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Date

1819

Artist

William Cowen (1797-1860)

Collection

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Image Link

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/404157

Description

Cowan made this delicately painted watercolor when he was twenty-two and it demonstrates the fresh vision British artists brought to landscape when they returned to the Continent after the Napoleonic wars. Frascati, twelve miles southeast of Rome, offered a prospect of the Alban hills framed by the Villa Lancellotti at right, and cathedral of San Pietro Apostolo at left. Long shadows cast by two umbrella pines indicate a rising sun at left. Cowen's travels were subsidized by Charles William Wentworth, third Earl Fitzwilliam, and other drawings from the trip are now at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge. While recognizable landmarks are included, the artist gave greater attention to delicate shifting colors in the sky, and the way low light transforms architectural forms into abstracted planes. Foreground details are set against shadows still cloaking the plain and distant hills. Medium: watercolor, pen and ink.

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CC0 1.0

Image Credit

Image courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Arts

Location

Frascati, Lazio, Rome, Italy

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Buildings & Architecture

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