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At the centre of the composition stands a building with four arches, the third of which leads to a furnace. In the foreground, a cart laden with fuel and drawn by two oxen is led by a man wearing a classical tunic. Smoke pours out of the vents in the tiled roof and the rolling storm clouds at the left give way to rosy sky at the right.

While this is an ideal landscape painted in the studio, the scenery is based on the heavily wooded hilly region around the thermal town of Bagni di Lucca, to the north-west of Florence, where Fabre spent much of his life from 1793. He made numerous sketching expeditions in this area. It has been suggested that the central building is a charcoal burner, but it is more likely to represent a lime kiln or a furnace for smelting iron ore.

The National Gallery, London

London

Title

Italian Landscape

Date

1811

Medium

Oil on canvas

Measurements

H 47.8 x W 68.4 cm

Accession number

NG6564

Acquisition method

Presented by Mrs Linda Murray in memory of her husband Peter Murray through The Art Fund, 1996

Work type

Painting

The National Gallery, London

Trafalgar Square, London, Greater London WC2N 5DN England

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Artist or maker

François-Xavier Fabre

1766–1837

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