Ruins of the Palatine Hill

Joseph Benoît Suvée French

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Born in Bruges, Suvée completed his artistic training in Paris, where in 1771 he won the Prix de Rome, beating out a young Jacques Louis David, five years his junior. As a student at the Académie de France in Rome, he made this accomplished study of the sun-drenched ruins of the Colosseum. In both technique and conception, it echoes the landscape drawings of his predecessors, artists such as Hubert Robert who saw antiquity as a source of picturesque motifs and an inspiration for reverie.

Ruins of the Palatine Hill, Joseph Benoît Suvée (French, Bruges 1743–1807 Rome), Red chalk

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