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Under the Roman Sun: Landscape, Brigands, and the Late Grand Tour

Roberta J. M. Olson, Curator of Drawings at the New–York Historical Society explores the relationship between the Grand Tour—a rite of passage for predominately wealthy young men—and the development of plein-air landscape painting.

Presented in conjunction with the exhibition The Path of Nature: French Paintings from the Wheelock Whitney Collection, 1785–1850, on view January 22–April 21, 2013.

Recorded February 10, 2013

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Pierre-Paul-Léon Glaize (French, Paris 1842–1932 Paris)

Date:: 1873
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 39 3/4 x 29 7/8 in. (101 x 75.9 cm)
Classification:: Paintings
Credit Line:: Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Collection, Bequest of Catharine Lorillard Wolfe, 1887
Accession Number:: 87.15.74

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Signatures, Inscriptions, and Markings

Inscription: Signed and dated (upper right): 1873 P.P.LÉON GLAIZE
Provenance

Catharine Lorillard Wolfe, New York (until d. 1887)
References

Catalogue of the Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 1905, pp. 59–60, no. 412.
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