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Collection Online as of December 18, 2025

View of Rome

c. 1782–1784

Pierre Henri de Valenciennes

(French, 1750–1819)
France, 18th century
oil on paper, mounted on board
Framed: 30 x 49 x 4.5 cm (11 13/16 x 19 5/16 x 1 3/4 in.); Unframed: 19.5 x 39 cm (7 11/16 x 15 3/8 in.)
Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1970.55
Location: 202 French Neoclassical Decorative Arts

Description

This oil sketch showing St. Peter's Basilica in the distance was painted during the artist's stay in Rome, 1777–85. Its spontaneity and freshness is typical of the artist's outdoor paintings, in which he sought to capture the light and atmosphere of Rome.
  • Walter Pach;
    Raymond Pach (Canton, North Carolina), sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1970.
  • The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. Reproduced: p. 187 archive.org
    Talbot, William S. “Some French Landscapes: 1779-1842.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 65, no. 3 (March 1978): 75–91. Mentioned and reproduced: p. 80, fig. 7 www.jstor.org
    The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Catalogue of Paintings, Part 3: European Paintings of the 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1982. Mentioned: p. 146-147; Reproduced: p. 146
  • Visions of Landscape: East and West. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 17-March 21, 1982).
    CMA, February 17-March 21, 1982: "Visions of Landscape:East and West," no catalogue.
    Year in Review: 1970. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 10-March 7, 1971).
    CMA, February 1971: Year in Review, cat. no. 45, illus.
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