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| View of the Gardens of the Villa Falconieri, Frascati, 1810. |
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| View of the Gardens of the Villa d'Este, Tivoli, 1811. |
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| View of the Abbey of Grottaferrata, circa 1811. |
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| A Convent Near Naples with a View of Capri, 1816. |
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| Italian Landscape, no date. |
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| Another version of "A Convent Near Naples with a View of Capri", circa 1816. |
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| 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.
