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Painted around 1800, this small oil sketch on canvas is a fine example of the type of study produced by artists working in Italy from about 1780 to 1850, who painted swiftly and directly from nature. Simon Denis’s oil studies are often of dramatic scenes from nature, particularly the spectacle of the sun setting among stormy clouds, which allowed him to show various intense light effects.In this sketch, a thin strip of grey-green land at the bottom of the picture, which is otherwise filled by the expansive sky, anchors the composition and gives it scale, as do the buildings, possibly ruins, silhouetted against the horizon.The entire sketch has been rapidly painted and Denis adjusts the handling of the paint according to the area on which he is working.
Title
Sunset in the Roman Campagna
Date
about 1800
Medium
Oil on paper
Measurements
H 18.2 x W 26.2 cm
Accession number
NG6562
Acquisition method
Bought, 1996
Work type
Painting
