Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Landscape sketch showing a view of St. Peter's Basilica and Claude Lorrain's villa, as seen from across the River Tiber. The river's waters and nearby banks occupy the foreground, as three barren trees are showing on the opposite shore. In the middle distance at left, a large home--the former villa of French landscape painter Claude Lorrain--is visible. In the distance at center, the tall dome of St. Peter's Basilica dominates the skyline. In the background, the setting sun paints a rich tapestry of yellow and orange hues across an otherwise blue sky.
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Artist
- Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
- Date
- December 1868 - April 1869
- Credit Line
- Gift of Louis P. Church
- Medium
- Oil and graphite on tan paperboard
- Dimensions
- 11.4 × 22.6 cm (4 1/2 × 8 7/8 in.)
- Type
- architecture
- Object Name
- Drawing
- Type
- Drawing
