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Wooded River Landscape
Pietro da Cortona (Pietro Berrettini), c. 1650
This work has a romantic vision of uncultivated nature, inhabited by rustic figures and lit by glowing shafts of sunlight. Cortona painted few pure landscapes, but nature featured prominently as a background to his religious pictures. The drawing was jointly purchased by Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery and Barber Institute of Fine Arts.
More information
Title of artwork, date
Wooded River Landscape, c. 1650
Date supported
1992
Medium and material
Black chalk, brush & grey ink & grey wash on paper
Dimensions
28.5 x 42.5 cm
Grant
26800
Total cost
268000
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