Pilgrims on the Via Cassia, Rome

Details

Oswald Achenbach (German, 1827-1905)
Pilgrims on the Via Cassia, Rome
signed and dated 'Osw.Achenbach 1883' (lower right)
oil on canvas
74 x 101 cm.

Literature

Martina Sitt et al., Andreas und Oswald Achenbach, Das A und O der Landschaft, Düsseldorf 1997, p. 131, ill.

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Lot Essay

When we compare the present lot to Oswald Achenbach's painting of the Arch of Titus (lot 205) we are again struck by the artist's ability to capture the Italian landscape with its warm atmosphere. It is because of his Italian paintings that Oswald was described as a 'Mahler Italiens' by the Düsseldorfer Zeitung in 1861. The road seen in the present painting is the ancient Via Cassia from which many pilgrims arriving from Tuscany would get their first glimpse of St. Peter's Cathedral.

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