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View in the Gardens of the Villa d'Este

ca. 1814–17
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 806
This view within the gardens of the Villa d’Este at Tivoli, renowned for its cypresses and waterworks, was painted between 1814 and 1817, during Pallière’s residency in Rome, twenty miles away. Pallière made sketches like this one to help formulate settings for narrative subjects, but also for pleasure. This is one of only two known examples from the trove of landscape studies discovered among the artist's effects after he died.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: View in the Gardens of the Villa d'Este
  • Artist: Léon Pallière (French, Bordeaux 1787–1820 Bordeaux)
  • Date: ca. 1814–17
  • Medium: Oil on paper, laid down on canvas
  • Dimensions: 9 x 12 in. (22.9 x 30.5 cm)
  • Classification: Paintings
  • Credit Line: The Whitney Collection, Promised Gift of Wheelock Whitney III, and Purchase, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Charles S. McVeigh, by exchange, 2003

  • Object Number: 2003.42.44
  • Curatorial Department: European Paintings

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