MAKE A MEME View Large Image Jean Achille Benouville - Landscape with Buffalo - Walters 371209.jpg Long-horned buffalo or oxen are being herded across a desolate stretch of the Roman Campagna In the center of the scene juts a high outcrop of rock Overhead reeling in ...
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Keywords: Jean Achille Benouville - Landscape with Buffalo - Walters 371209.jpg Long-horned buffalo or oxen are being herded across a desolate stretch of the Roman Campagna In the center of the scene juts a high outcrop of rock Overhead reeling in the dark sky are some vultures The artist has applied the pigments in high impasto utilizing a palette knife The surface is further enriched with squiggly indentations made with the end of a brush-handle Giovanni Costa an Italian artist noted for his views of the Campagna listed in Quel che Vidi e Quel che Intesi Trèves 1927 p 122 a number of colleagues also drawn to the region including Böcklin David Plock George Mason Zäner Lenbach Wilde and Charles Coleman as well as Benouville This picture is attributed to Benouville on the basis of similarities it exhibits in technique and format to a pair of landscapes belonging to the Heim Gallery London 1978 The London pictures also show views of the Campagna one with an aqueduct and the other with a herd of buffalo and are inscribed with the artist's monogram J A B conjoined and are identified Rome 68 in red ca 1865 68 Oil on canvas cm 40 80 6 ; Framed cm 59 69 100 12 54 accession number 37 1209 4597 Don Marcello Massarenti Collection Rome date and mode of acquisition unknown Henry Walters city Baltimore Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters with the Massarenti Collection 1902 The Road to Impressionism Barbizon Landscapes from the Walters Art Museum The Dixon Gallery and Gardens Memphis; The Frick Art Historical Center Pittsburgh 2008-2009 place of origin France Walters Art Museum license 2D Jean-Achille Benouville Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review Paintings in the Walters Art Museum Roman Campagna
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