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Title:
View in Capri
Object name(s):
Picture; British
Brief description:
In this sketch Leighton looks down onto the roofs of a small group of simple peasant houses. With their light colour, distinctive shallow domes and chimneys, they stand in stark contrast to the landscape they inhabit. A trail winds its way across a steep crest of hills. The distant summit is almost exactly at the vertical midpoint of the painting. At left, the steep cliffs fall away to the sea.
Collection:
National Gallery
Credit line:
The Gere Collection, on long-term loan to the National Gallery
Current location:
Not on display
Current reproduction location:
2/936/689/210/mid_L-0847-00-000002.jpg
Dimension:
Height
Dimension measured part:
Overall
Dimension measurement unit:
cm
Dimension value:
21.20
Dimension:
Width
Dimension measured part:
Overall
Dimension measurement unit:
cm
Dimension value:
29.30
Form:
None
Material:
Oil on canvas
Object name:
Picture; British
Object production date:
perhaps 1859
Date - earliest / single:
1859
Date - latest:
1859
Object production date:
Date - period:
1850-74
Object production person:
Frederic, Lord Leighton
Person's birth date:
1830
Person's death date:
1896
Other number:
L847
Other number type:
object number
Other number:
0F0Y-0001-0000-0000
Other number type:
PID
Other number:
L847
Other number type:
display number
Other number:
000-033W-0000
Other number type:
PID (NG alternative)
Other number:
l2847
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
Style:
Victorian

Persistent shareable link for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/336ee4c0-b2d2-3440-968c-e0f22629ffc7

Use licence for this record: CC BY

Attribution for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/336ee4c0-b2d2-3440-968c-e0f22629ffc7, National Gallery, CC BY

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