Cascade at Tivoli

Location

Country: Ethiopia
City: Addis Ababa
Place: British Embassy

Louis Bélanger travelled extensively through Europe and is best known for works he produced on the continent and in England. He was based in London for a time and exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1790 and 1797, showing just three works there in total. In the published listing of ‘Royal Academy Contributors and their Works’ he is described as ‘Painter to the Duke of Orleans’ and in 1790 his address is given as No. 2, Old Bond Street. By 1797 he had moved, although his new address is given simply as Knightsbridge. He was appointed painter to the Swedish court in Stockholm in 1798, where he remained until his death in 1816. Swedish painter Carl Johan Fahlcrantz (1774-1861) was his pupil.

Places

Italy, Aniene Cascade, River Aniene, Tivoli, Tivoli: Temple of Vesta

Subjects

topography, landscape C18th, stone/rock, waterfall, man, woman, house, ruin

Materials & Techniques

paper (as artists material), watercolour (as artists materials), gouache (as artists material), watercolour (as object name)

Artist

Louis Bélanger (1756 - 1816)

Title

Cascade at Tivoli

Date

1792

Medium

Watercolour and gouache on paper

Acquisition

Purchased from Colnaghi's, February 1968

Inscription

sd

Provenance

Sold through Christie’s, London, ‘Fine Drawings by Old Masters’ sale, on 21 November 1967 (Lot 128; with GAC 7967), for £315 (300 guineas) for both, as ‘Cascade at Terni’; with Colnaghi, London; from whom purchased by the Ministry of Works in February 1968

GAC number

7966