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Monks in the Cloister of the Church of Gesù e Maria, Rome

1808
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 806
This painting was first exhibited at the Paris Salon of 1808. It combines an appreciation for seventeenth-century Dutch cabinet pictures, which had been fashionable among French collectors since the late eighteenth century, with a new interest in the everyday life of contemporary Italians. In many of Granet’s Roman scenes, iconic settings are passed over in favor of lovingly observed but overlooked ones such as this cloister, located on the Via del Corso near his studio. Among the earliest admirers of these genre paintings was Granet’s closest colleague in Rome, the history painter J. A. D. Ingres.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Monks in the Cloister of the Church of Gesù e Maria, Rome
  • Artist: François Marius Granet (French, Aix-en-Provence 1775–1849 Aix-en-Provence)
  • Date: 1808
  • Medium: Oil on canvas
  • Dimensions: 19 1/2 x 15 3/8 in. (49.5 x 39.1 cm)
  • Classification: Paintings
  • Credit Line: The Whitney Collection, Gift of Wheelock Whitney III, and Purchase, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Charles S. McVeigh, by exchange, 2003

  • Object Number: 2003.42.36
  • Curatorial Department: European Paintings

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Monk Seated Before a Ruined Gateway, François Marius Granet French, Pen and brown ink, watercolor
Monk Seated Before a Ruined Gateway
François Marius Granet
n.d.
The Church of the Trinità dei Monti and the Villa Medici, Rome, François Marius Granet French, Brush and brown wash over graphite underdrawing
The Church of the Trinità dei Monti and the Villa Medici, Rome
François Marius Granet
ca. 1808
A Cardinal Examining a Painting in a Cloister, François Marius Granet French, Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, watercolor, over black chalk
A Cardinal Examining a Painting in a Cloister
François Marius Granet
first half 19th century
View of Notre Dame de Versailles from the plaine de Rocquencourt toward the South, François Marius Granet French, Oil on paper, mounted on canvas
View of Notre Dame de Versailles from the plaine de Rocquencourt toward the South
François Marius Granet
probably ca. 1833–47
Ponte San Rocco and Waterfalls, Tivoli, François Marius Granet French, Oil on canvas
Ponte San Rocco and Waterfalls, Tivoli
François Marius Granet
ca. 1810–20

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