View of the Cascades at Tivoli

Nicolas Delobel

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Delobel was a pupil of Louis de Boullogne and Nicolas Vleughels. When the latter was named Director of the Académie de France in Rome in 1724, Delobel accompanied him to Italy. Under Vleughels, the French students were encouraged to make plain air landscape drawings in the Roman campagna. The proposed drawing must have been made on one of these expeditions.

This painterly study depicts the cascades at Tivoli. opting for a high horizon line, Delobel allows the buildings to occupy the upper band of the composition. Much of the sheet is given over to a description of the waterfall, rocky outcroppings, foliage, and ruins of this famous site, a short distance from Rome.

View of the Cascades at Tivoli, Nicolas Delobel (Nicolas Delobel, Paris 1693-1763 Paris), Black and red chalk, pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, watercolor and gouache

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