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The Door of a Grotto

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Date

c.1765-1766

Artist

William Marlow (1740-1813)

Collection

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Image Link

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/641334

Description

Marlow made this free watercolor sketch during a trip through France and Italy. Spontaneous brushwork and bright washes evoke strong sunlight playing across stone, contrasted with a shadowed recess covered by a rough wooden door. The artist’s travel likely was supported by the duchess of Northumberland, since Marlow later made many finished oils of Italian subjects for this English patroness. The freshness of the drawing is an early demonstration of watercolor’s expressive potential and anticipates groundbreaking innovations that would be made twenty years later by the British artists Thomas Jones and John Robert Cozens in Rome and Naples. Medium: watercolor and graphite.

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CC0 1.0

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Image courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Arts

Location

Italy

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Architecture
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