© Barber Institute of Fine Arts
Wooded River Landscape
Artist: Pietro da Cortona (Pietro Berrettini) (1596 - 1669)
Location: Barber Institute of Fine Arts
Date: circa 1650
Materials: black chalk, brush & grey ink & grey wash on paper
Dimensions: 28.5 x 42.5cm
Grant:
Amount Paid: £26,800 (Total: £268,000)
Vendor: Hazlitt, Gooden and Fox
Review number: 3641 (1992)
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Provenance:
1st Earl of Leicester; by descent.
Description:
This work has a romantic vision of uncultivated nature, inhabited by rustic figures and lit by glowing shafts of sunlight. Cortona painted few pure landscapes, but nature featured prominently as a background to his religious pictures. The drawing was jointly purchased by Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery and Barber Institute of Fine Arts.
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