'The Weir on the Po' ('Landscape with Waterfall')

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'The Weir on the Po' ('Landscape with Waterfall')
'The Weir on the Po' ('Landscape with Waterfall')
'The Weir on the Po' ('Landscape with Waterfall')
Landesmuseum Hannover - ARTOTHEK
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Artist
Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782)
Title
'The Weir on the Po' ('Landscape with Waterfall')
Date
Undated
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
Metric: 42.7 x 53 cm
Imperial: 16 13/16 x 20 7/8 in
Accession Number
B937
Wilson Online Reference
P197D
Description
The viewpoint is nearer the edge of the river than in other versions, giving the falls greater height; a woman is in the right foreground.
Provenance
Given to the museum in 1928 by a Berlin art dealer
Signature/inscription
Unsigned; no inscription
Versions
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Critical commentary
As noted by Constable, this version closely resembles a drawing of the subject formerly in the collection of Mrs Richard Ford and described in the Tate Gallery exhibition of 1925 as View of Tivoli (81)
Bibliography
Kunstchronik 1928, p. 68; Kunsthist. Studien des Prov.-Mus. Hannover, vol. 2, 1929, pl. 47; WGC, p. 211, pl. 98b (version 5); A. French, Gaspard Dughet called Gaspard Poussin 1615-75, exh. cat., Kenwood, London, 1980, pp. 88-89 (73); Solkin 1981, p. 414, n. 21.