Robert Seldon DuncansonVereinigte Staaten, 1821–1872Pompeii
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Smithsonian American Art Museum
Washington, D.C., Vereinigte Staaten
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- Unverändert seit
- 25. Sept. 2026
- Quelle
- Sammlungsdaten des Museums selbst
About the painting
Robert Duncanson's patrons in Cincinnati sponsored his first trip to Europe in 1853, allowing him to participate in a rite of passage for American artists. He compared his skills with those of European painters and claimed, "Of all the landscapes I saw in Europe...I do not feel discouraged." Duncanson imagined Pompeii around the time of its first excavation in 1747, showing men in eighteenth-century costume admiring the ruins and searching for buried treasure. Such fanciful depictions were popular among nineteenth-century American patrons, who made the ancient city at the foot of Vesuvius a stop on their grand tours.
Exhibition Label, Smithsonian American Art Museum, 2006
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Angaben
- Inventarnummer
- 1983.95.158
What it shows
Quellen
- Smithsonian American Art Museum: the museum's own open data · abgerufen vor 6 Tagen
- Bild: Smithsonian American Art Museum — CC0
