The River Nera by an Ilex Grove
Abraham-Louis-Rodolphe Ducros (1748 - 1810)
Category
Art / Drawings and watercolours
Date
circa 1789 - 1810
Materials
Watercolour and bodycolour (partly varnished) on four joined sheets on paper
Measurements
749 x 1067 mm (29 1/2 x 42 in)
Order this imageCollection
Stourhead, Wiltshire
NT 730816
Summary
Watercolour and bodycolour (partly varnished) on four joined sheets on paper, The River Nera by an Ilex Grove, by Abraham Louis Ducros (Yverdon, Switzerland 1748 – Lausanne 1810). The scene was not identified by Colt Hoare, but like NT 730805, NT 730806 and NT 730811, this must also be a view on the Nera, a river noted for the evergreen oaks on its banks. A town is visible in the background, but there is no particular identifiable feature. Inscribed (on reverse of canvas backing): La Foret de Papigno peint (?) ...Cav: Hoare. The subject is clarified by the recently revealed inscription. Papigno is a village situated on a rock above the Nera near Terni. Colt Hoare describes in his Recollections Abroad, II, p.252, how in October 1789 he set off from Terni and "leaving my horse at the desolated village of Papignia" he descended towards the river.
Marks and inscriptions
Verso: Inscribed (on reverse of canvas backing): La Foret de Papigno peint (?) ...Cav: Hoare
Makers and roles
Abraham-Louis-Rodolphe Ducros (1748 - 1810)
Exhibition history
Souvenirs of the Grand Tour, Wildenstein, London, 1982, no.25
References
Sutton 1982: Denys Sutton (ed.), Souvenirs of the Grand Tour. A Loan exhibition from National Trust Collections in Aid of the Trust’s Conservation Fund, exh. cat., Wildenstein & Co. Ltd., London 1982, no. 25