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    Ariccia
    Ariccia
    Ariccia
    Tate, London 2014
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    Artist
    Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782)
    Title
    Ariccia
    Date
    c. 1754-56 (undated)
    Medium
    Black chalk, stump and graphite on grey prepared laid paper
    Dimensions
    Metric: 322 x 447 mm
    Imperial: 12 11/16 x 17 5/8 in.
    Collection
    Tate, London. To license image, click here.
    Accession Number
    T08164
    Wilson Online Reference
    D261
    Description
    The view is from the north towards the Palazzo Chigi and Bernini's church of Santa Maria dell'Assunzione, whose twin bell-towers are shown without their onion-shaped cupolas.
    Exhibited
    Birmingham 1948-49 (128); London 1949 (127); Sheffield 1952 (77); London 1958 (14); National Gallery of Canada 1961 (96); Amsterdam 1965 (142); London, Cardiff and New Haven, 1982-83 (55); Manchester 1988 (73); London 1997 (13); Cardiff, Manchester and London, 2003-4 (17); Tercentenary 2014 (142)
    Provenance
    Paul Sandby; Earl of Warwick; A.G.B. Russell by 1924; A. P. Oppé, 1948; Armide Oppé; purchased as part of the Oppé Collection with assistance from the National Lottery through the Heritage Lottery Fund 1996
    Signature/inscription
    Unsigned; no inscription
    Techniques and materials
    Stump has been used to soften and smudge some of the black chalk, thus creating rich areas of tone
    Collectors' marks
    [1] Lower left corner: Paul Sandby (Lugt 2112)
    [2] Lower left corner: A.G.B. Russell (Lugt Supplément 2770a)
    Subject
    Located between the lakes of Nemi and Albano on the Via Appia Nuova, south-east of Rome. Ariccia was celebrated for its groves, thought to have been the hunting-grounds of the goddess Diana. The area had been a haunt of Wilson's admired predecessor, Gaspard Dughet (1615-1675). The town was acquired by the Chigi family in 1661 and in the following year they commissioned Bernini to modernise the old palace of the Savelli, Princes of Albano, and to build a new church.
    Related Drawings
    D261A Ariccia near Rome, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
    D407 Ariccia from Lake Albano, Kupferstich-Kabinett, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden
    Related Works by Other Artists
    [1] Giovanni Battista Falda (1643-1678), Veduta della Nobil Terra d'Ariccia, engraving, 1665
    [2] Jonathan Skelton (c.1735-1759), View of Ariccia, c.1758, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (2003.103)
    [3] John Downman (1750-1824), Chigi Park near L'Ariccia, 1773-74, Tate, London (T10175)
    [4] Francis Towne (1739-1816): Ariccia, 1781, The British Museum (Nn,3.14)
    [5] William Pars (1742-1782): Palazzo Chigi, Ariccia, near Albano, Victoria & Albert Museum, London
    [6] John 'Warwick' Smith (1749-1831): A View of Ariccia, near Albano, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
    [7] John Robert Cozens (1752-1779): Ariccia, Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery
    Critical commentary
    There is some doubt as to the extent of autograph work executed on the spot in this drawing. The foreground seems much more summary than the motif of the buildings and may possibly have been added in the studio at a later stage by Wilson himself or by another hand, perhaps that of Sandby.
    Previous Cat/Ref Nos
    2358
    Bibliography
    The Connoisseur, July 1924, p. 141, pl. 5; Ford 1951, p. 61, no. 65; Solkin 1982, pp. 175-176; Hawcroft 1988, p. 66; Lyles & Hamlyn 1997, pp. 62-63; Sumner and Smith 2003, pp. 127-128, repr.; Wilson and Europe 2014, p. 315
    Link to WG Constable Archive Record
    WGC/1/1/78
    Location featured in work
    Ariccia, south-east of Rome, Italy
    Updated by Compiler
    2022-01-24 00:00:00

    Work of Art

    Drawings

    • Ariccia near Rome, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
    • Ariccia from Lake Albano, Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden

    Versions

    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782) Ariccia near Rome, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

    Exhibitions

    • London, Tate Gallery, Cardiff, National Museum of Wales, and New Haven, Conn., Yale Center for British Art, 3 November 1982 - 19 June 1983
    • Birmingham City Art Gallery, 17 November 1948 - 9 January 1949
    • Amsterdam, Rijksprentenkabinet, 9 April - 23 May 1965
    • National Museum & Gallery, Cardiff, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester and National Gallery, London, 21 May 2003 - 15 February 2004
    • New Haven, Yale Center for British Art & Cardiff, Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales, 6 March - 29 October 2014
    • Manchester, Whitworth Art Gallery, 7 October - 10 December 1988
    • London, Tate Gallery, 10 September - 30 November 1997

    Biographies

    • Paul Sandby (c.1730-1809)
    • Adolf Paul Oppé (1878-1957)
    • George Guy Greville Brooke, 4th Earl of Warwick (1818-1893)
    • Gaspard Dughet (1615-1675)
    • Archibald George Blomefield Russell (1879-1955)

    Documents

    • David Solkin, Richard Wilson: The Landscape of Reaction
    • Brinsley Ford, The Drawings of Richard Wilson
    • Martin Postle & Robin Simon, Richard Wilson and the Transformation of European Landscape Painting
    • Anne Lyles & Robin Hamlyn, British Watercolours from the Oppé Collection: with a Selection of Drawings and Oil Sketches
    • Ann Sumner & Greg Smith eds., Thomas Jones (1742-1803): An Artist rediscovered
    • Francis W. Hawcroft, Travels in Italy 1776-1783, Based on the Memoirs of Thomas Jones
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