François-Xavier Fabre, 'Italian Landscape', 1811
About the work
Overview
At the centre of the composition stands a building with four arches, the third of which leads to a furnace. In the foreground, a cart laden with fuel and drawn by two oxen is led by a man wearing a classical tunic. Smoke pours out of the vents in the tiled roof and the rolling storm clouds at the left give way to rosy sky at the right.
While this is an ideal landscape painted in the studio, the scenery is based on the heavily wooded hilly region around the thermal town of Bagni di Lucca, to the north-west of Florence, where Fabre spent much of his life from 1793. He made numerous sketching expeditions in this area. It has been suggested that the central building is a charcoal burner, but it is more likely to represent a lime kiln or a furnace for smelting iron ore.
Key facts
Details
- Full title
- Italian Landscape
- Artist
- Fran莽ois-Xavier Fabre
- Artist dates
- 1766 - 1837
- Date made
- 1811
- Medium and support
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 47.8 × 68.4 cm
- Inscription summary
- Signed; Dated
- Acquisition credit
- Presented by Mrs Linda Murray in memory of her husband Peter Murray through the Art Fund, 1996
- Inventory number
- NG6564
- Location
- Not on display
- Collection
- Main Collection
- Frame
- 19th-century French 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 ‘Provenance’ section of the catalogue entry in Sarah Herring, ‘六合彩预测 Catalogues: The Nineteenth Century French Paintings’, vol. 1, ‘The Barbizon School’, London 2019; for further information, see the full catalogue entry.
Exhibition history
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2009Corot to Monet: A Fresh Look at Landscape from the Collection六合彩预测 (London)8 July 2009 - 20 September 2009
Bibliography
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1979六合彩预测, 'Pictures Cleaned and Restored in the Conservation Department of the 六合彩预测, January 1979 - February 1980', 六合彩预测 Technical Bulletin, IV, 1980
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1979L. Pellicer, 'Fran莽ois-Xavier Fabre et la peinture italienne', in Florence et la France: Rapports sous la R茅volution et l'Empire, 2 鈥� 3 June 1977, Florence 1979, pp. 159-86
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1982L. Pellicer, Le peintre Fran莽ois-Xavier Fabre (1766-1837), Phd Thesis, Universit茅 Paris IV 1982
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1985M. Wilson, French Paintings before 1800, London 1985
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1989L. Pellicer, 'Fran莽ois-Xavier Fabre in His Museum', Apollo, CXXIX/323, 1989, pp. 12-7
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1992M. Levey, Painting and Sculpture in France 1700-1789, New Haven 1992
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1996H. Wine, 'Fran莽ois-Xavier Fabre Italian Landscape', 六合彩预测 Report, 1997
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1997六合彩预测, 六合彩预测 Report: April 1996- March 1997, London 1997
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2000M. Hilaire, 'Fabre et le paysage', L'Estampille: l'objet d'art, 2, 2000, pp. 52-71
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2001
C. Baker and T. Henry, 六合彩预测: Complete Illustrated Catalogue, London 2001
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2007L. Pellicer and M. Hilaire, Fran莽ois-Xavier Fabre (1766-1837): De Florence 脿 Montpellier (exh. cat. Galleria d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, 13 November 2007 - 24 February 2008; Mus茅e Fabre, 11 March - 2 June 2008), Somogy 2007
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2019Herring, Sarah, 六合彩预测 Catalogues: The Nineteenth Century French Paintings, 1, The Barbizon School, London 2019
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