- Title:
- Landscape with a Ruined Tower
- Object name(s):
- Picture; Italian
- Brief description:
- Figures placed carefully across the landscape lead us through the painting, from the peasants resting by a path to the rider and his white horse, and on to those walking towards a ruined arch and tower. To the right, a cow herder and his animals rest by the river while two women on the far bank wash clothes. Thick, expressive brushstrokes describe the people and animals; highlighted by the sunlight, they stand out against areas of shade.This picture was once thought to be by Francesco Zuccarelli, whose work Zais clearly studied. Zais spent most of his career in Venice and painted scenes inspired by the Italian countryside; his Landscape with a Group of Figures and Landscape with a Group of Figures Fishing are also in the National Gallery's collection.
- Collection:
- National Gallery
- Accession date:
- 1906-01-01
- Date - earliest / single:
- 1906
- Date - latest:
- 1906
- Acquisition source:
- Anna Louisa Cohen
- Associated concept:
- horses
- Associated concept:
- ruins
- Credit line:
- Bequeathed by the Misses Cohen as part of the John Samuel Collection, 1906
- Current location:
- Not on display
- Current reproduction location:
- 3/530/100/778/mid_N-2086-00-000008.jpg
- Dimension:
- Height
- Dimension measured part:
- Overall
- Dimension measurement unit:
- cm
- Dimension value:
- 70.20
- Dimension:
- Width
- Dimension measured part:
- Overall
- Dimension measurement unit:
- cm
- Dimension value:
- 95.90
- Form:
- None
- Material:
- oil
- Material:
- canvas
- Material:
- oil on canvas
- Object name:
- Picture; Italian (Venetian)
- Object production date:
- Date - period:
- 1750-74
- Date - period:
- 1775-99
- Object production date:
- probably 1760-80
- Date - earliest / single:
- 1760
- Date - latest:
- 1780
- Object production person:
- Giuseppe Zais
- Person's birth date:
- 1709
- Person's death date:
- 1784
- Object production place:
- Italy
- Object production place:
- Venice
- Other number:
- NG2086
- Other number type:
- object number
- Other number:
- 0FKH-0001-0000-0000
- Other number type:
- PID
- Other number:
- NG2086
- Other number type:
- display number
- Other number:
- 000-04JM-0000
- Other number type:
- PID (NG alternative)
- Other number:
- ng32086
- Other number type:
- sort number
- Owner:
- John Phineas Jochanan Samuel
- 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:
- river scenes
- Style:
- landscapes
- Style:
- rococo
- Style:
- neoclassical
- User's reference:
- National Gallery Catalogues: The Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Italian Schools
- Reference details:
- 245
- Reference note:
- Latest catalogue
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- National Gallery Catalogues: The Eighteenth Century Italian Schools
- Reference details:
- 109
- Reference note:
- Previous catalogues
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- The National Gallery: Complete Illustrated Catalogue
- Reference details:
- 732
- Reference note:
- Key bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- The National Gallery lends : pictures from eighteenth-century Venice : [an exhibition organised in conjunction with the Arts Council of Great Britain] /[selection of pictures and catalogue by Homan Potterton].
- Reference type:
- reference
Persistent shareable link for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/e57ecdae-3461-300f-bc95-59e0cecb293d
Use licence for this record: CC BY
Attribution for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/e57ecdae-3461-300f-bc95-59e0cecb293d, National Gallery, CC BY
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