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A Landscape with Classical Ruins

Frederick de Moucheron (1633–1686)

The National Gallery, London

A Landscape with Classical Ruins

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Frederick de Moucheron was one of a number of seventeenth-century Dutch artists who specialised in painting idyllic scenes of people with their animals among the antique ruins of the Campagna (the countryside around Rome).Here, a woman sits upright, holding a baby, while a man with his back to us points towards a sunlit tower overlooking the distant valley. Neither of them seems to notice the rather adventurous dog exploring the fallen masonry under the columns.The ruins tower over the people beneath them. The columns are painted very slightly off centre, leaning almost imperceptibly to one side -- it's enough to be unsettling, especially with the tomb-like blocks overhead that look in danger of falling. The ruins appear to suggest the grandeur of an almost-vanished civilisation; life in their shadow continues calm and serene, untouched by the glories of the past.

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Title

A Landscape with Classical Ruins

Date

about 1660

Medium

Oil on canvas

Measurements

H 71 x W 65.2 cm

Accession number

NG1352

Acquisition method

Bequeathed by Richard W. Cooper, 1892

Work type

Painting

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Trafalgar Square, London, Greater London WC2N 5DN England

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Frederick de Moucheron

1633–1686

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