Nicolas Poussin, peintre classique du 17e siècle

Landscape with the Basilica of St John Lateran

Gaspard Duguet - Landscape - Engraving
Landscape engraving: Landscape with Basilica of St John Lateran by Gaspard Poussin

Landscape engraved by Lemercier. Another engraving was executed by Jean Baptiste Claude Chatelain in 1742, viewable on the British Museum website, with this description: “Landscape with two figures in the foreground, with one walking on a road and waving to a man lying by the roadside, at left; beyond woodland on the left, and river at centre; an Italian city in the background.”

The painting, today in Chatsworth, proposes a composition showing the Lateran church as it was before Borromini’s remodeling from 1644-50.

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