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Man Reclining under a Tree,
1852
George Loring Brown, American, 1814–1889
x1949-151
Trained in Boston and Paris, Brown became a successful landscape painter who lived in Rome and Florence from 1840 to 1860, producing picturesque scenes of the Italian countryside and coastline for Anglo-American tourists. He also made crisply evocative drawings such as this one, which is inscribed Albano, referring to a densely forested area near Lake Albano, southeast of Rome. The wood pulp content of the paper has caused it to grow darker with the passage of time, making the white highlights stand out more than the artist likely intended.
Information
Title
Man Reclining under a Tree
Dates
1852
Maker
Medium
Graphite heightened with white gouache and touches of red watercolor
Dimensions
39 x 27.7 cm (15 3/8 x 10 7/8 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Frank Jewett Mather Jr.
Object Number
x1949-151
Signatures
Signed, inscribed, and dated in graphite, lower center: G.L Brown | Albano 1852
Culture
Type
Materials
Subject
Frank Jewett Mather Jr.;
- Barbara T. Ross, American Drawings in the Art Museum, Princeton University: 130 Selected Examples (Princeton: Art Museum, Princeton University, 1976)., p. 111, no. 111 (illus.)
- John Wilmerding et al., American Art in the Princeton University Art Museum: volume 1: drawings and watercolors, (Princeton: Princeton University Art Museum; New Haven, CT; London: Yale University Press, 2004), p. 146, cat. no. 32; p. 147 (illus.); p. 339, checklist no. 841
