View from the Villa d'Este, Tivoli
This work straddles the boundary between an informal study and a finished painting. Aerial perspective, the combined effect of light and atmosphere, is seen here as the veil of haze that softens details near the horizon. Similar paintings by Denis’s elder contemporaries were becoming increasingly popular in Paris at the time Denis lived there, from 1775 until his move to Rome about 1786.
Artwork Details
- Title: View from the Villa d'Este, Tivoli
- Artist: Attributed to Simon Denis (Flemish, Antwerp 1755–1813 Naples)
- Date: ca. 1786–1806
- Medium: Oil on paper, laid down on canvas
- Dimensions: 13 3/4 x 21 7/8 in. (35 x 55.5 cm)
- Classification: Paintings
- Credit Line: The Whitney Collection, Promised Gift of Wheelock Whitney III, and Purchase, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Charles S. McVeigh, by exchange, 2003
- Object Number: 2003.42.17
- Curatorial Department: European Paintings
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