The Fountain at Grottaferrata
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
113 × 99.5 cm (44 3/8 × 39 in.); Framed: 135.9 × 122 cm (53 1/2 × 48 in.)
Classification
painting
Department
Painting and Sculpture of Europe
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
209942
Rights
Public Domain
About this artwork
With its golden light and peaceful figures in a bucolic environment, this painting represents an idealized view of life in the Italian countryside, as seen through a German lens. Like many young artists of the period, German painter and etcher Ludwig Richter traveled to Rome to study Classical ruins and the Mediterranean landscape. The Fountain at Grottaferrata, completed some years after the artist returned to Germany, is based on his detailed drawings of the countryside just outside Rome. Rich...