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View on the River Roseau, Dominica
Agostino Brunias · 1770–80
Provenance
Ownership history
- Emily Crane Chadbourne, Stone Ridge, New York by 1952; given to the Art Institute, 1953.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Art Institute of Chicago, Selected Works of Eighteenth-Century French Art in the Collections of The Art Institute of Chicago, Jan. 24 – Mar. 28, 1976, cat. 22.
- New Orleans Museum of Art, Inventing Acadia: Painting and Place in Louisiana, Nov. 16, 2019 – Jan. 26, 2020, no cat. no., pl. 13.
- London, Royal Academy of Arts, Entangled Pasts, 1768–Now: Art, Colonialism and Change, Feb. 3 – Apr. 28, 2024, cat. 44.
Literature
Published references
- Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Collection (Chicago: The Art Institute, 1961), 61.
- Hans Huth, "Agostino Brunias, Romano: Robert Adam's 'Bred Painter'," Connoisseur 151 (December 1962): 296, fig. 6.
- Susan Wise and Malcolm Warner, French and British Paintings from 1600 to 1800 in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Collection (Chicago: The Art Institute, 1996), 198–200, ill.
- Katie A. Pfohl, ed., Inventing Acadia : painting and place in Louisiana, exh. cat. (New Orleans: New Orleans Museum of Art, 2019), 96-97, 98-99 fig. 8, 166 pl. 13, 226.
- Sarah Lea, "Beauty and Difference: Landscape and Architecture," in Entangled Pasts, 1768–Now: Art, Colonialism and Change, exh. cat. (London: Royal Academy of Arts, 2024), 104 (detail ill.), 105, 117 cat. 44.
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