Robert Seldon DuncansonStati Uniti, 1821–1872Pompeii
Si può ammirare?
Non si sa: il museo mantiene il riserbo
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Washington, Stati Uniti
Il proprietario è noto. Se oggi sia esposta, il museo non lo dice, e a indovinare non ci hanno insegnato.
- Ultimo cambio di stato
- 25 set 2026
- Fonte
- I dati di collezione del museo stesso
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
Scheda
- Numero di inventario
- 1983.95.158
What it shows
Fonti
- Smithsonian American Art Museum: the museum's own open data · acquisita 6 giorni fa
- Immagine: Smithsonian American Art Museum — CC0
