Wooded River Landscape

Pietro da Cortona (Pietro Berrettini) (1596 - 1669)

Barber Institute of Fine Arts

circa 1650

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.

• Medium: black chalk, brush & grey ink & grey wash on paper
• Dimensions: 28.5 x 42.5cm
• Art Fund Grant: £26800 ( Total: £268,000; Export stopped)
• ArtFunded in: 1992
• Vendor: Hazlitt, Gooden and Fox

Provenance

1st Earl of Leicester; by descent.

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