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Italian Mountainous Landscape with Lake Nemi
Also titled Italiaans berglandschap met het meer van Nemi
John Robert Cozens (London, 1752–1797)
1790
- Medium
- paper, pencil, watercolor (paint)
- Classification
- drawing
- Dimensions
- height 368 mm x width 535 mm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed
About this work
John Robert Cozens sojourned twice in Italy for extended periods of time. He made many drawn studies there, on which he later based this water colour. Cozens wanted to paint sublime landscapes. This found expression not only in the depiction itself, but also in the muted, broad passages of wash, meant to lend the image a universal grandeur. Specific touches of bright colours, such as red, were used only for details.
