Erminio Soldera, 'View of Trees and Vegetation', 1890-1900
About the work
Overview
Erminio Soldera was born in Cappella Maggiore, near Treviso, and trained with Cesare Tallone (1853 -1919) at the Brera Academy in Rome. He produced frescoes and decorations for churches, but also painted portraits and landscapes, of which this is an early example.
Dense greenery dominates the foreground of this expanse of uncultivated, anonymous nature. The vegetation has been rendered in a close range of greens, with light shades laid over dark in the manner of oil sketches dating from earlier in the century. A few darker, prominent trees break up the skyline, while in the distance spikes of green push up into the sky. Soldera has joined two pieces of paper to make the wide panoramic format, popular with painters across Italy in the second half of the nineteenth century.
Key facts
Details
- Full title
- View of Trees and Vegetation
- Artist
- Erminio Soldera
- Artist dates
- 1874 - 1955
- Date made
- 1890-1900
- Medium and support
- oil on board
- Dimensions
- 16.5 × 49 cm
- Acquisition credit
- Presented by the Lishawa family, 2018
- Inventory number
- NG6679
- Location
- Not on display
- Collection
- Main Collection
- Frame
- 20th-century Replica Frame
Provenance
Additional information
This painting is included in a list of works with incomplete provenance from 1933–1945; for more information see Whereabouts of paintings 1933–1945.
Text extracted from the National Gallery’s Annual Report, ‘The National Gallery: Review of the Year, April 2018 – March 2019’.
Bibliography
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2019National Gallery, The National Gallery: Review of the Year, April 2018 - March 2019, London 2019
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