View of the Caelian Hill, Rome, with the church of Santi Giovanni e Paolo, seen from the Aventine, Rome

Joseph Vernet French

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Vernet was the most admired landscape specialist in eighteenth-century France. He traveled to Italy in the late 1730s, where he remained until 1753, when he was summoned back to France to for a commission from king Louis XV to paint a series of canvases depicting the Ports of France.
His style was influenced by earlier masters, like Claude Lorrain, but also deeply indebted to the first-hand study of nature. This drawing of the Caelian Hill in Rome was made around 1750 and part of an album assembled probably in Vienna in the early 19th century. A meticulous distant view of the church of Santi Giovanni e Paolo is contrasted by the abstract treatment of rooftops in the foreground.

View of the Caelian Hill, Rome, with the church of Santi Giovanni e Paolo, seen from the Aventine, Rome, Joseph Vernet (French, Avignon 1714–1789 Paris), Black chalk, pen and black ink, brush and brown and gray wash

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