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    Tomb of the Horatii and the Curatii, near Albano, Italy

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    Tomb of the Horatii and the Curatii, near Albano, Italy
    Tomb of the Horatii and the Curatii, near Albano, Italy
    Tomb of the Horatii and the Curatii, near Albano, Italy
    Gloucester City Museum and Art Gallery
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    Artist
    Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782)
    Title
    Tomb of the Horatii and the Curatii, near Albano, Italy
    Date
    Undated
    Medium
    Oil on canvas
    Dimensions
    Metric: 50.5 x 70.4 cm
    Imperial: 19 7/8 x 27 3/4 in.
    Collection
    Gloucester City Museum and Art Gallery. To license images click here.
    Accession Number
    00307
    Wilson Online Reference
    P61A
    Description
    The tomb is on the Via Appia Nuova, just beyond Albano on the way to Ariccia. The road is shown at the left with a coach and horses passing along it in a cloud of dust and figures disappearing onto the woodland. Only two of the tomb's towers now survive. Here it is shown standing on sandy ground, with a standing woman and seated man before it. A goatherd with his dog and a flock of goats cross the foreground from the left and there are trees behind the tomb and in the background.
    Exhibited
    Gloucester 2014 (unnumbered); Croome 2019
    Provenance
    Stanley Marling; bequeathed to Gloucester City Museum and Art Gallery, 1963
    Signature/inscription
    Unsigned; no inscription
    Techniques and materials
    The technique is more solid compared with that in P61. There is a pentiment of a second shepherd with a staff. The dark purple tones of the dust cloud and the related area are uncharacteristic of Wilson. The figures in the foreground are small and unconvincing and the background figures and coach are ambiguous.
    Subject
    The tomb near Albano is in the Etruscan manner, a massive cube originally surmounted by five obtuse cones of which two are still standing.
    Versions
    See 'Links' tab
    Related Paintings
    P67 Landscape Capriccio with the Tomb of the Horatii and Curiatii and the Villa of Maecenas at Tivoli, National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo
    Related Works by Other Artists
    [1] J.F. van Bloemen (L'Orrizonte), Paesaggio con Monumento degli Orazi e Curiazi, Pericoli Collection, Rome
    [2] Thomas Barker of Bath, The Tomb of the Horatii and Curiatii, 1792, National Museum Wales, Cardiff (NMW A 454)
    Critical commentary
    As noted by W.G. Constable, the trees on the right and the tomb itself are larger in proportion than in P61 and P61B and the flock of goats is more prominent.
    Bibliography
    WGC, pp. 203-4 pl. 82b (Version 1)
    Link to WG Constable Archive Record
    WGC/1/1/91
    More Information
    The tomb provided the model for at least two eighteenth-century garden structures in Britain.
    Condition/Conservation
    Dimensions framed: 67.5 x 90.7 cm. Treated by Miss E. Hamilton-Eddy, 1976. Kate Lowry has noted: Goatherd figure has a pentiment indicating a change of position. Figures in the distance are not well defined. Foliage of tree against sky is quite fiddly for Wilson but sky is painted down to foliage which is typical. Under UV light retouching is visible around foliage at upper right and there is a large retouched tear in tree left of centre.
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    2020-06-15 00:00:00

    Work of Art

    Versions

    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782) The Tomb of the Horatii and Curiatii, Collection of the Earl of Pembroke, Wilton House, Wiltshire
    • Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782) The Tomb of the Horatii and Curiatii, The Collection of Mr Darryl Saunders, New Orleans

    Paintings

    • Landscape Capriccio with the Tomb of the Horatii and Curiatii and the Villa of Maecenas at Tivoli, National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo

    Exhibitions

    • Gloucester City Museum & Art Gallery, 2 January - 1 March 2014
    • Croome Court, Worcestershire, 15 February - 31 December 2019

    Biographies

    • Stanley Marling (1864-1963)

    Documents

    • William George Constable, Richard Wilson
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