Wooded River Landscape
Pietro da Cortona (Pietro Berrettini)
- Art Funded
- 1992
- Dimensions
- 28.5 x 42.5 cm
- Vendor
- Hazlitt, Gooden and Fox
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.
Provenance
1st Earl of Leicester; by descent.