Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes

(December 6, 1750 - February 16, 1819) was a French painter. Valenciennes worked in Rome from 1778 to 1782, where he made a number of landscape studies directly from nature, sometimes painting the same set of trees or house at different times of day.He theorized on this idea in Advice to a Student on Painting, Particularly on Landscape (1800), developing a concept of a "landscape portrait" in which the artist paints a landscape directly while looking upon it, taking care to capture its particular details.Although he spoke of this as a type of painting mainly of interest to "amateurs", as distinguished from the higher art of the academies, he found it of great interest, and of his own works the surviving landscape portraits have been the most noted by later commentators. He in particular urged artists to capture the distinctive details of a scene's architecture, dress, agriculture, and so on, in order to give the landscape a sense of belonging to a specific place; in this he probably influenced other French artists active in Italy who took an anthropological approach to painting rural areas and customs, such as Hubert Robert, Pierre-Athanase Chauvin and Achille-Etna Michallon.
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Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes View of the Palace of Nemi. oil painting


View of the Palace of Nemi.
Pintura Identificación::  72094
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View of the Palace of Nemi.
Landscape from the french painter Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes. View of the Palace of Nemi.
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Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes A Capriccio of Rome with the Finish of a Marathon oil painting


A Capriccio of Rome with the Finish of a Marathon
Pintura Identificación::  72266
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A Capriccio of Rome with the Finish of a Marathon
Date 1788 Medium Oil on canvas Dimensions ? X cm cyf
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Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes Cicero Discovering the Tomb of Archimedes oil painting


Cicero Discovering the Tomb of Archimedes
Pintura Identificación::  81781
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Cicero Discovering the Tomb of Archimedes
Date 1787 Medium Oil on canvas Dimensions 119 x 162 cm cjr
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Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes Storm by a Lake oil painting


Storm by a Lake
Pintura Identificación::  85166
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Storm by a Lake
Date 1780(1780) Medium Oil on paper on canvas Dimensions Height: 40 cm (15.7 in). Width: 52 cm (20.5 in). cjr
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Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes the Two Poplar Trees oil painting


the Two Poplar Trees
Pintura Identificación::  85193
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the Two Poplar Trees
Date 1780(1780) Medium Oil on paper on cardbord Dimensions Height: 25 cm (9.8 in). Width: 38 cm (15 in). cjr
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     Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes
     (December 6, 1750 - February 16, 1819) was a French painter. Valenciennes worked in Rome from 1778 to 1782, where he made a number of landscape studies directly from nature, sometimes painting the same set of trees or house at different times of day.He theorized on this idea in Advice to a Student on Painting, Particularly on Landscape (1800), developing a concept of a "landscape portrait" in which the artist paints a landscape directly while looking upon it, taking care to capture its particular details.Although he spoke of this as a type of painting mainly of interest to "amateurs", as distinguished from the higher art of the academies, he found it of great interest, and of his own works the surviving landscape portraits have been the most noted by later commentators. He in particular urged artists to capture the distinctive details of a scene's architecture, dress, agriculture, and so on, in order to give the landscape a sense of belonging to a specific place; in this he probably influenced other French artists active in Italy who took an anthropological approach to painting rural areas and customs, such as Hubert Robert, Pierre-Athanase Chauvin and Achille-Etna Michallon.

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