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A View on the Tiber, near the Ripa Grande, Rome (?)

Image credit: The National Gallery, London

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Jan Both was one of a group of Dutch artists that made the long and often dangerous journey across the Alps to Italy, said at the time to be the heart of great painting. He stayed for ten years, becoming a leader in the development of Dutch Italianate landscape showing hardy peasants against softly glowing skies.

This painting is unusual for Both. He shows an urban view of architecture rather than a landscape and his view of the Ripa Grande – the old port of Rome – is partly imaginary. In his other paintings from a different viewpoint the scene is more recognisable. It seems that in painting this picture on his return to the Netherlands, Both is painting partly from memory and partly from imagination, but always with affection for the sunlit land he had left.

The National Gallery, London

London

Title

A View on the Tiber, near the Ripa Grande, Rome (?)

Date

about 1641

Medium

Oil on oak

Measurements

H 42.1 x W 55 cm

Accession number

NG958

Acquisition method

Wynn Ellis Bequest, 1876

Work type

Painting

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