Léon Fleury, 'View of the Villa Borghese', about 1827-30
View of the Villa Borghese
On loan: Gere Collection Paintings to the Ashmolean (2024 - 2026), The Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, Oxford, UK About the work
Overview
This view shows part of the Villa Borghese in Rome, with the Casino del Muro Torto on the right and part of the Acqua Felice aqueduct on the left. The viewpoint has been carefully chosen in order to create a balanced composition. Fleury has positioned the path in the middle of the foreground, leaving our eye to follow its graceful curve upwards, around the rocks from the shaded foreground into the sunlit background.
Key facts
Details
- Full title
- View in the Villa Borghese: The Casino del Muro Torto and the Aqueduct of Acqua Felice
- Artist
- Léon Fleury
- Artist dates
- 1804 - 1858
- Date made
- about 1827-30
- Medium and support
- Oil on paper laid on canvas
- Dimensions
- 15.5 × 26 cm
- Acquisition credit
- The Gere Collection, on long-term loan to the National Gallery
- Inventory number
- L825
- 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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