L a - b e a u t é - s a u v e r a - l e - m o n d e ~ D o s t o ï e v s k i

L a - b e a u t é - s a u v e r a - l e - m o n d e  ~  D o s t o ï e v s k i



Sunday, August 9, 2015

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.
(Detail.)
(Detail.)
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.
(Detail.)
(Detail.)

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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.





1 comment:

  1. Lovely, pictures, the detail of the Corpus Christi procession in the first one is wonderful and the Friars in the last amazingly detailed.

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