Full Record |
| Title |
An Italianate Landscape with a Ruin |
| Collection |
Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery |
| Artist |
School of Rousseau, Jacques (French painter, 1630-1693) |
| Date Earliest |
about 1700 |
| Date Latest |
about 1725 |
| Description |
This painting forms a pair with 176P10. Both paintings were presumably painted for Aston Hall, and have been in the house ever since. They are in the style favoured by Jacques Rousseau, who was working in London at the end of the seventeenth century but are most probably early eighteenth century in date judging from the general lightness of tone and great attention to decorative effect. |
| Current Accession Number |
1976P9 |
| Former Accession Number |
P.9´76 |
| Subject |
landscape (Italianate) |
| Measurements |
259.1 x 168.9 cm cm (estimate) |
| Material |
oil on canvas |
| Acquisition Details |
Transferred to Birmingham Corporation with Aston Hall 1976. |
| Provenance |
Sir Lister Holte, 1771, inventoried as at Aston Hall; Whitehead and Greenway Ltd [?] |
| Publications |
Foreign Paintings in Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, A Summary Catalogue, 1983, no. 127. |
| Rights Owner |
Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery |
| Author |
Dr Patricia Smyth |
