Ref: 3182
Rome, View of the Fountain of the Tritons and the Temple of Hercules Victor, 1864
Franz Knebel
Ref: 3182
Rome, View of the Fountain of the Tritons and the Temple of Hercules Victor, 1864
Franz Knebel
19th Century
1864
Oil on canvas
Rome
Signed lower left F Knebel f and dated lower right Rome 1864
67 x 104 cm
1864
Oil on canvas
Rome
Signed lower left F Knebel f and dated lower right Rome 1864
67 x 104 cm
Description: Franz Knebel
(La Sarraz, 1809 - Rome, 1877)
Rome, View of the Fountain of the Tritons and the Temple of Hercules Victor, 1864
Signed lower left F Knebel f and dated lower right Rome 1864
Oil on canvas, unframed
67 x 104 cm
(La Sarraz, 1809 - Rome, 1877)
Rome, View of the Fountain of the Tritons and the Temple of Hercules Victor, 1864
Signed lower left F Knebel f and dated lower right Rome 1864
Oil on canvas, unframed
67 x 104 cm
Franz Knebel
Franz Knebel II (1809–1877) was a Swiss landscape painter whose career was shaped by Rome and the Grand Tour. Born in La Sarraz, he moved as a teenager to Italy with his father, Franz Knebel the Elder, and remained closely connected to Rome for the rest of his life. Like many northern European artists in Italy, Knebel painted for travellers and collectors seeking refined memories of the classical landscape. His preferred subjects included Tivoli, the Roman Campagna, Lake Nemi, ruins, waterfalls and sunlit Italian views. Rather than dramatic invention, his paintings rely on balanced composition, soft atmospheric light and a clear sense of place. He translated the Italian landscape into elegant, collectible images that were cultivated, luminous and quietly romantic. His work belongs to the nineteenth-century tradition of foreign artists in Rome who transformed topography, antiquity and travel into highly finished landscape painting.
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