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'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')
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
Details
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Collection
Niedersächsischen Landesmuseums, Hannover, Germany. To license image, click here.
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
See 'Links' tab
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)
Work of Art
Versions
Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782)
The Weir on the Po (Figures by a Waterfall)
, Collection of Richard L. Feigen & Co
Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782)
A Weir on the River Po near Ferrara
, Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford
Ascribed to Wilson,
The Falls of Tivoli (The Weir on the Po)
, Private Collection, England
Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782)
A View on the River Po near Ferrara (Figures by a Waterfall)
, Magdalen College, Oxford
Exhibitions
London, National Gallery, Millbank (Tate Gallery), 26 June - 30 September 1925
Documents
William George Constable,
Richard Wilson