Opus 24: Rome, from the Campagna, Sunset
ArtistThomas Moran
Year1867 (1867)
LocationTimken Museum of Art, San Diego, California, U.S.

Opus 24: Rome, from the Campagna, Sunset is an 1867 oil painting on canvas by Thomas Moran.[1] It is one of 42 paintings Moran included on his "Opus List", a list of the paintings he viewed as his finest work.[2]

Background and composition

From June 1866 to May 1867, Moran visited Europe, a trip that included several weeks in the Campagna region of Italy.[2] During his time in the Campagna, Moran drew multiple sketches of the local landscape.[3] One such sketch, titled Rome near the Claudian Aqueduct, is thought to have been Moran's reference for the final painting.[2]

Opus 24 was one of Moran's first works to be completed after he returned to the United States in 1867.[2][4]

Provenance

Opus 24 is first known to have been sold in the 1880s, when Moran sold the painting for $75 (equivalent to $2,274 in 2022). In 2005, a relative of the original buyer donated the painting to the Timken Museum of Art in San Diego.[2]

References

  1. ↑ "Collection: Opus 24: Rome, from the Campagna, Sunset". Timken Museum of Art. Archived from the original on September 24, 2020. Retrieved August 20, 2020.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 Cartwright, Derrick R. (October 28, 2020). "Work of the Week: Thomas Moran, Opus 24: Rome, from the Campagna, Sunset, 1867". Timken Museum of Art. Archived from the original on May 28, 2023. Retrieved September 13, 2023.
  3. ↑ Wilkins, p. 61.
  4. ↑ Wilkins, p. 68.

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