Giovanni Costa, 'Porto d'Anzio', about 1853
Porto d'Anzio
On loan: Gere Collection Paintings to the Ashmolean (2024 - 2026), The Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, Oxford, UK About the work
Overview
Costa probably painted this work while on a sketching expedition with George Heming Mason in 1853, during which they both painted views of the coast at Anzio. In Costa's small painting the sky occupies more than half the picture space. Texture is given to the landscape by the artist's use of thin paint, which allows the grain of the wooden panel to show through.
Key facts
Details
- Full title
- Porto d'Anzio
- Artist
- Giovanni Costa
- Artist dates
- 1826 - 1903
- Date made
- about 1853
- Medium and support
- Oil on oak
- Dimensions
- 12.5 × 37.1 cm
- Acquisition credit
- The Gere Collection, on long-term loan to the National Gallery
- Inventory number
- L815
- Location
- On loan: Gere Collection Paintings to the Ashmolean (2024 - 2026), The Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, Oxford, UK
- Image copyright
- The Gere Collection, on long-term loan to the National Gallery, © Private collection 2000. Used by permission
- Collection
- Main Collection
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