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River landscape with Tiburtine Temple at Tivoli
(c. 1635)
Medium
oil on canvas
Measurements
38.0 × 53.0 cm
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1967
Gallery location
Rembrandt Cabinet
Level 2, NGV International
About this work
Claude is renowned as one of the first professional landscape painters, as well as one of the genre’s greatest exponents. He was a skilled etcher and his influence spread quickly throughout Europe as his images were disseminated widely through prints. Claude also worked with Dutch artists who worked in Rome, such as Herman van Swanevelt, meaning direct knowledge of his working practice became known in the Netherlands. Claude’s popularity reached its peak in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries when British collectors and landscape artists admired his virtues as a landscape artist above all others.
Artwork Details
Accession Number
1796-5
Department
International Painting
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of Digitisation Champion Ms Carol Grigor through Metal Manufactures Limited
Subjects (general)
Architecture Human Figures Landscapes
Subjects (specific)
Arcadian landscapes (visual works) classicism Italy (nation) riverine landscapes ruins shepherds temples (buildings) Tivoli (inhabited place)