View of the Acqua Acetosa (recto)
Medium
pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash over graphite, framing lines in brown ink
Dimensions
26 × 40.5 cm
Classification
Drawing
Department
Drawings
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Edward B. Greene
Accession Number
1928.15.a
Rights
Public Domain
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About this artwork
This drawing represents a view of the famous Acqua Acetosa, a mineral spring that until the 19th century provided the favored drinking water of Romans who believed in its healing powers. Although topographically accurate, the sheet is not a plein-air study but a vision of an imagined Arcadian world carefully rendered by Gellée, one of the most original painters of the 17th century. The French-born artist spent his career painting and drawing the Roman Campagna and the Neopolitan coastline. Subli...