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The Cemetery at Pronoia near Nauplia

ca. 1841–47
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 806
In 1834, King Ludwig I of Bavaria commissioned a cycle of Greek landscapes from Rottmann that eventually numbered thirty-eight canvases (Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen, Munich). This sketch is the most freely painted of some half a dozen studies for Pronoia (1846/47), which commemorates the burial place of Bavarian soldiers who helped vanquish the Ottoman Turks at nearby Nauplia in 1822, during the Greek War of Independence.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: The Cemetery at Pronoia near Nauplia
  • Artist: Carl Rottmann (German, Handschuhsheim 1797–1850 Munich)
  • Date: ca. 1841–47
  • Medium: Oil on canvas
  • Dimensions: 10 x 12 in. (25.4 x 30.5 cm)
  • Classification: Paintings
  • Credit Line: Gift of Eugene V. Thaw, 2007
  • Object Number: 2007.164.8
  • Curatorial Department: European Paintings

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