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View of Tivoli (Paysage de Tivoli)

View of Tivoli (Paysage de Tivoli)

ca. 1750

Charles- Francois Grenier

French, ca. 1700-82

Oil on canvas
25 x 19 in. (63.5 x 48.3 cm)
Gift of Martha and Henry Isaacson
66.18
Provenance: [Galerie Heim, Paris, by November 1965]; purchased by Seattle Art Museum (funds from Mr. and Mrs. Henry C. Isaacson, Sr.), January 19, 1966
location
Not currently on view

Resources

Exhibition HistoryFlorence, Italy, 4th Biennale, Antique Dealers' Fair, 1960

Bellevue, Washington, Bellevue Art Museum, "17th, 18th, 19th Century Western Art: An Exhibit of Selected Portions from the Collections of the Seattle Art Museum," October 30, 1975 - November 24, 1975 (10/30/1975 - 11/24/1975)

Olympia, Washington, Washington State Governor's Mansion, 1979-1981

Santa Barbara, California, University Art Museum, University of California Santa Barbara, "The Anglo-American Artist in Italy, 1750-1820," April 9 - May 7, 1982 (04/09/1982 - 05/07/1982)

Memphis, Tennessee, The Dixon Gallery and Gardens, "From Arcadia To Barbizon: A Journey In French Landscape Painting", 11/22/1987- 1/3/88. Circuit: The Allen Memorial Museum, Oberlin College, OH, 1/17/88-3/13/88, J.B. Speed Museum, Louisville, KY, 3/27/88-5/15/88. (11/22/1987 - 05/15/1988)
Published ReferencesConnoisseur, September 1965, no. 16, p. 40 (color frontispiece of Editorial)

"Rome the Magnet," in Apollo, Vol. LXXXV, No. 63, May 1967, no. 63, p. 316

Art Quarterly, Vol. XXIX, No. 2, 1966, p. 167

"Engagement Book." Seattle: Seattle Art Museum, 1968, pp. July 28-August 3

"17th, 18th, 19th Century Western Art." Bellevue: Bellevue Art Museum, 1975

Brilli, Attilio. "Il Viaggio in Italia: Storia di una grande Tradizione Culturale dal XVI al XIX Secolo." Milan: Banca Popolare di Milano, 1987, pp. 168-169, illus. p. 169

Simpson, Lisa A. "From Arcadia to Barbizon: A Journey in French Landscape Painting." Memphis: The Dixon Gallery and Gardens, 1987, pp. 40-41, illus. p. 40

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