Rome with St. Peter's and Castel Sant'Angelo

1821

Not on view

By the nineteenth century, the panoramic view seen in this small painting had been reproduced in prints so often that one visitor to Rome described his first sight of it as "half recognition and half surprise." One distinctive feature of Söderberg’s version is the use of stippling to record visual data on a minute scale, including cows on the Tiber’s western embankment and Bernini’s sculptures of saints along the bridge.

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Title: Rome with St. Peter's and Castel Sant'Angelo
Artist: Gustaf Söderberg (Swedish, Norrköping 1799–1875 Stockholm)
Date: 1821
Medium: Oil on two sheets of paper, laid down on Masonite
Dimensions: 8 3/8 x 14 1/2 in. (21.3 x 36.8 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: 2009.400.105
Curatorial Department: European Paintings

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