The golden green of Italy - landscapes by Pierre-Athanase Chauvin

View of the Gardens of the Villa Falconieri, Frascati, 1810.

 View of the Gardens of the Villa d'Este, Tivoli, 1811.

View of the Abbey of Grottaferrata, circa 1811.

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A Convent Near Naples with a View of Capri, 1816.

Italian Landscape, no date.

Another version of "A Convent Near Naples with a View of Capri", circa 1816.

Monks Before Lake Nemi, no date.

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Pierre-Athanase Chauvin (9 June 1774, Paris - 29 October 1832, Rome), French painter, later resident in Italy. A student of the landscape painter Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes, he began his career at the Paris Salon of 1793. In 1813, Chauvin settled in Rome and became a member of the Accademia di San Luca, but maintained his connections with the Arts community in Paris; he won a First Class medal at the Salon of 1819, and was made a chevalier of the Légion d'honneur in 1828.