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Dusk, Monte Mario, Rome

1804
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 805
Granet made numerous sketches of Monte Mario from the Pincian Hill, the site of the Villa Medici, which became the seat of the French Academy in Rome in 1803. This example was painted during the brief period after sunset when sufficient daylight remains to perceive color, and could have been completed in as little as twenty minutes. Almost all the artist’s oil studies are in the Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence; this one was inherited by his pupil Baptistin Martin (1818–1901) and descended in his family.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Dusk, Monte Mario, Rome
  • Artist: François Marius Granet (French, Aix-en-Provence 1775–1849 Aix-en-Provence)
  • Date: 1804
  • Medium: Oil on paper, laid down on cardboard
  • Dimensions: 8 x 12 1/4 in. (20.3 x 31.1 cm)
  • Classification: Paintings
  • Credit Line: Thaw Collection, Jointly Owned by The Metropolitan Museum of Art and The Morgan Library & Museum, Gift of Eugene V. Thaw, 2009
  • Object Number: 2009.400.70
  • 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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