Description:
forest landscape with figures on path between trees and castle in distance

Label Text:
Label text for ARH 240 French and Italian Drawings Renaissance through Romanticism, written by Maggie Hoot, class of 2016:

The whimsical scene, as well as the distinctive, swirling treatment of the clouds and trees in this drawing, clearly identifies it as a work of the Rococo. A past collector erroneously attributed it to Jean-Antoine Watteau, but it was actually drawn by the little-known artist Nicolas-Charles Silvestre. At the age of eighteen, Silvestre became the drawing instructor to the children of King Louis XV of France. Most of Silvestre’s drawings are in red chalk, an unpredictable medium. An installation on drawing materials located in the alcove in the exhibition Drawn to Excellence on SCMA’s first floor gives an in-depth description of the difficulties of working with natural chalk.

Tags:
landscapes; vegetation; men; architecture

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