Etruscan Scene: The Carrera Mountains by Matthew Ridley Corbet ARA, 1850-1902 ARSA (signed). c. 1890. Oil on canvas. Dimensions: 20.30 cm x 52.70 cm. Image download, text and formatting by Jacqueline Banerjee. [Click on the image to enlarge it.]
This is another of Corbet's Italian landscape paintings inspired by Giovanni Costa. Corbet and his wife Edith both enjoyed these scenes, painting them from various angles and in various lights, in warm rather than dramatic tones and in a panoramic format which conveys the sweep of the open view. The human element here is provided by the fishing net, suspended from the leaning pole and its curving rods. This also provides tension with the horizontals of the long building on the other bank and the grassy rises on the right. It is another masterly composition, this time with the points of particular interest picked out in mellow ochres.
Links to related material
- Distant View of the Carrera Mountains by Edith Corbet
- Giovanni Costa
- Victorian Landscape Painting in Context
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Created 28 August 2022