Heinrich Bürkel, 'Distant View of Rome with the Baths of Caracalla', about 1829
Distant View of Rome with the Baths of Caracalla
On loan: Gere Collection Paintings to the Ashmolean (2024 - 2026), The Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, Oxford, UK About the work
Overview
This panoramic view of the baths of Caracalla, painted before the ruins were fully excavated, is probably one of a series of oil sketches executed soon after Bürkel's arrival in Rome in 1829 from Munich, where he had been studying. The foreground is rapidly sketched in with diluted oils, while the ruins in the middle ground are painted in greater detail, making them appear more sharply in focus.
Key facts
Details
- Full title
- Distant View of Rome with the Baths of Caracalla in the Foreground
- Artist
- Heinrich Bürkel
- Artist dates
- 1802 - 1869
- Date made
- about 1829
- Medium and support
- Oil on paper
- Dimensions
- 23.7 × 57.4 cm
- Inscription summary
- Signed
- Acquisition credit
- The Gere Collection, on long-term loan to the National Gallery
- Inventory number
- L803
- 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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