Landscape in the Roman Campagna
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Object Label
In this panoramic view of sky and earth, Daubigny explores the shifting patterns of light and shade that enliven the landscape as darkened clouds move across the sky. He further enhances the sensation of movement by cropping the cloud line, suggesting that the billowing masses glide beyond the picture plane and into the viewer’s space. Executed early in Daubigny’s career, this work, with its hard-edged contours and seamless surface, reveals the painter’s training in Neoclassical landscape. Later works by Daubigny on display in these galleries demonstrate his move toward the gestural handling of naturalistic landscape painting, and away from the idealization seen here.
Caption
Charles-François Daubigny Paris, France, 1817–1878, Paris, France. Landscape in the Roman Campagna, 1836. Oil on paper mounted on canvas, 16 1/8 × 33 7/8 in. (41 × 86 cm) frame: 21 × 38 1/2 × 2 3/4 in. (53.3 × 97.8 × 7 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Healy Purchase Fund B and Gift of Miss Isabel Shults, by exchange, 1991.214. No known copyright restrictions (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 1991.214_SL3.jpg)
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Not on view
Collection
Gallery
Not on view
Collection
Title
Landscape in the Roman Campagna
Date
1836
Geography
Place made: Europe
Medium
Oil on paper mounted on canvas
Classification
Dimensions
16 1/8 × 33 7/8 in. (41 × 86 cm) frame: 21 × 38 1/2 × 2 3/4 in. (53.3 × 97.8 × 7 cm)
Signatures
Signed lower left: "Daubigny"
Credit Line
Healy Purchase Fund B and Gift of Miss Isabel Shults, by exchange
Accession Number
1991.214
Rights
No known copyright restrictions
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