Boulevard des Italiens, Paris (painting)

Boulevard des Italiens, Paris
ArtistJohn Crome
Year1815
TypeOil on canvas, landscape painting
Dimensions54.5 cm × 87.3 cm (21.5 in × 34.4 in)
LocationNorwich Castle, Norfolk

Boulevard des Italiens, Paris is an 1815 landscape painting by the British artist John Crome. It depicts a scene on the Boulevard des Italiens in Paris. Featuring one of the Grand Boulevards of the city, it was produced, based on a sketch made during the artist's visit to the French capital in the wake of the 1814 Peace of Paris that ended the Napoleonic Wars. [1] Crome was a prominent member of the Norwich School of artists known for their East Anglian landscapes. He displayed a Norfolk landscape at the Salon of 1814 at the Louvre and produced three views of Paris base on his visit. [2]

Crime exhibited the painting at the The painting is in a private collection but has been on a long-term loan to Norwich Castle. [3] [4]

References

  1. ^ Noon & Bann p.51
  2. ^ Noon & Bann p.51
  3. ^ Noon & Bann p.51
  4. ^ https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/boulevard-des-italiens-paris-734

Bibliography

  • Brown, David Blayney, Hemingway, Andrew & Lyles, Anne. Romantic Landscapes: The Norwich School of Painters. Harry N. Abrams, 2000.
  • Binyon, Laurence. John Crome and John Sell Cotman. Seeley and Company, 1897.
  • Hawcroft, Francis C. John Crome 1768-1821. Arts Council, 1968.
  • Noon, Patrick & Bann, Stephen. Constable to Delacroix: British Art and the French Romantics. Tate, 2003.