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Title:
Buildings by a Weir in a Mountainous Valley
Object name(s):
Picture; French
Brief description:
In this subtle depiction of rushing water in a mountainous valley, with what are possibly mill buildings tucked behind the trees, the steep, densely wooded hills spill down to the water's edge. The hillsides are painted with small, sometimes feathery brushstrokes, often seeming to delineate every leaf. There is no agreement on the attribution of this painting. The French painter Bidauld has been suggested because he repeatedly painted fast-moving mountain streams.
Collection:
National Gallery
Credit line:
The Gere Collection, on long-term loan to the National Gallery
Current location:
Room 39
Current reproduction location:
1/377/488/311/mid_L-0800-00-000005.jpg
Dimension:
Height
Dimension measured part:
Overall
Dimension measurement unit:
cm
Dimension value:
30.50
Dimension:
Width
Dimension measured part:
Overall
Dimension measurement unit:
cm
Dimension value:
35.20
Form:
None
Material:
Oil on paper laid on board
Object name:
Picture; French
Object production date:
around 1800
Date - earliest / single:
1800
Date - latest:
1800
Object production date:
Date - period:
1800-24
Object production person:
Jean Joseph Xavier Bidauld
Person's birth date:
1758
Person's death date:
1846
Other number:
L800
Other number type:
object number
Other number:
0F02-0001-0000-0000
Other number type:
PID
Other number:
L800
Other number type:
display number
Other number:
000-0357-0000
Other number type:
PID (NG alternative)
Other number:
l2800
Other number type:
sort number
Responsible department/section:
Main Collection
Right note:
To encourage the use and reuse of the National Gallery's collection data, they are released under the following dedications and licences: Structured data (as opposed to narrative texts) are released under a Creative Commons Zero dedication (CC0): https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/. Descriptions, notes and all other narrative text content are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence (CC BY): https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. Images are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 licence (CC BY-NC-ND): https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/.
Style:
neoclassical

Persistent shareable link for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/2922bf86-5913-3b3d-b2b3-1222f04d04e1

Use licence for this record: CC BY

Attribution for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/2922bf86-5913-3b3d-b2b3-1222f04d04e1, National Gallery, CC BY

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