Attributed to Jean Henry d'Arles, French 1734-1784- Fire in the Rhone Valley; oil on canvas, 28.4 x 40.5 cm. Note: Owing his name to the town in which he was born, Henry spent the majority of his artistic career working around Marseille and Arles...
Attributed to Jean Henry d'Arles, French 1734-1784- Fire in the Rhone Valley; oil on canvas, 28.4 x 40.5 cm. Note: Owing his name to the town in which he was born, Henry spent the majority of his artistic career working around Marseille and Arles. The present work depicts a nocturnal scene, most likely to be the medieval bridge by Pont-Sant-Esprit, a small town further upstream of Arles. Henry studied under Claude Joseph Vernet from 1754 and would go on to complete his training in Rome, funded by his patron Jean-Baptiste Rey. Dramatic night time scenes were a theme Henry visited often and the present work displays a number of similarities to 'Village en feu sous un orage la nuit' (1758) held at the Musée de Valence (no.2001.10.2).
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Attributed to Jean Henry d'Arles, French 1734-1784- Fire in the Rhone Valley; oil on canvas, 28.4 x 40.5 cm. Note: Owing his name to the town in which he was born, Henry spent the majority of his artistic career working around Marseille and Arles. The present work depicts a nocturnal scene, most likely to be the medieval bridge by Pont-Sant-Esprit, a small town further upstream of Arles. Henry studied under Claude Joseph Vernet from 1754 and would go on to complete his training in Rome, funded by his patron Jean-Baptiste Rey. Dramatic night time scenes were a theme Henry visited often and the present work displays a number of similarities to 'Village en feu sous un orage la nuit' (1758) held at the Musée de Valence (no.2001.10.2).
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