View in a Park
Alexandre Hyacinthe Dunouy
Date unknown · Oil on paper, laid down on ledger paper · European Paintings
In the first decade of the nineteenth century, Dunouy received numerous commissions to paint views of country estates within a short distance of Paris. Since the eighteenth century, châteaux including Ermenonville, Malmaison, Montmorency, Mortefontaine, and Saint-Cloud had all acquired parks in the informal, English style seen in this sketch. The English in their turn had drawn inspiration for their private parks from the arcadian paintings of seventeenth-century French artists working in Italy, such as Nicolas Poussin and Claude Lorrain.
- Artist
- Alexandre Hyacinthe Dunouy
- Date
- Date unknown
- Medium
- Oil on paper, laid down on ledger paper
- Department
- European Paintings
- Credit line
- The Whitney Collection, Promised Gift of Wheelock Whitney III, and Purchase, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Charles S. McVeigh, by exchange, 2003
