A View of Tivoli with the Anio Novus Aqueduct
Claude-Joseph Vernet (Avignon 1714 – Paris 1789)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1751 (signed and dated)
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
991 x 1359 mm (39 x 53 1/2 in)
Place of origin
Rome
Order this imageCollection
Uppark House and Garden, West Sussex
NT 138296.2
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, A View of Tivoli with the Anio Novus Aqueduct, by Claude-Joseph Vernet (Avignon 1714 – Paris 1789), signed and dated, on rock to right of fisherman hauling in net: Joseph Vernet/f Romae/1751. Bare tree to the left, waterfall and viaduct to the right, figures and beached boat in foreground. Commissioned in Rome by Benjamin Lethieullier at the same time as Vernet's 'Four Times of Day' in the Dining Room. One of a pair (NT/UPP/P/131a is other). A romanticised view, with Tivoli seen from a different direction than most views (information supplied by Martin Hopkinson).
Provenance
Commissioned in Rome by Benjamin Lethieullier; purchased by the National Trust from the Trustees of the late R.J. Meade-Fetherstonhaugh, Esq., 1974, with the help of a grant from the Purchase Grant Fund, 1976.
Credit line
Uppark, The Fetherstonhaugh Collection (National Trust)
Marks and inscriptions
y (signed)
Makers and roles
Claude-Joseph Vernet (Avignon 1714 – Paris 1789) , artist