A Section of the Claudian Aqueduct, Rome
André Giroux
ca. 1826–29 · Oil on paper, laid down on canvas · European Paintings
Giroux, recipient of the Prix de Rome for historical landscape painting in 1825, positioned himself with his back to the Colosseum to paint this section of the first-century Claudian Aqueduct, which once conveyed water to the Palatine Hill. With its intense focus on symmetry, design, and proportion, this sketch gives no hint of the immensity of the ruin it depicts. The viscous materiality of the paint, brushed freely yet assuredly, appears as fresh today as it did when this work was executed.
- Artist
- André Giroux
- Date
- ca. 1826–29
- Medium
- Oil on paper, laid down on canvas
- 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
