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Pierre de Valenciennes The Ancient Town of Agrigentum A Composite Landscape (mk05) oil painting reproduction


Pierre de Valenciennes

The Ancient Town of Agrigentum A Composite Landscape (mk05)

Canvas 43 1/4 x 64 1/2''(110 x 164 cm)Salon of 1787 assigned to the Louvre in 1950 M N R
Painting ID::  20727
 

 

Pierre de Valenciennes
Toulouse 1750-Paris 1819 .French painter. He trained at the academy in Toulouse under the history painter Jean-Baptiste Despax (1709-73). In 1769 he went to Italy for the first time, with Mathias Du Bourg, a councillor at the Toulouse parliament. Du Bourg introduced him to Etienne-Fran?ois, Duc de Choiseul, a keen patron of the arts, who in turn recommended him to Gabriel-Fran?ois Doyen, one of the leading history painters in Paris, whose studio he entered in 1773. Doyen gave his pupil a sense of the elevated ideals of history painting but was also sympathetic to the lesser genre of landscape. Valenciennes presumably frequented Choiseul's country seat at Chanteloup, near Amboise, meeting there the landscape painters Hubert Robert and Jean Hoeel, both proteg's of Choiseul. His early interest in the native landscape can be seen in his sketchbooks (Paris, Louvre), especially one dated 1775 that contains drawings made at Amboise, Compiegne and Fontainebleau
The Ancient Town of Agrigentum A Composite Landscape (mk05)
Canvas 43 1/4 x 64 1/2''(110 x 164 cm)Salon of 1787 assigned to the Louvre in 1950 M N R

        
   
 

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