View of Tivoli: The Villa of Maecenas
Maker
Jean Baptiste Lallemand
(French, 1716-1803?)
Daten.d.
MediumGouache on heavy wove paper
DimensionsSheet: 9 1/4 × 14 3/4 in. (23.5 × 37.5 cm)
Framed (under glass): 11 1/2 × 17 1/8 × 3/4 in. (29.2 × 43.5 × 1.9 cm)
Framed (under glass): 11 1/2 × 17 1/8 × 3/4 in. (29.2 × 43.5 × 1.9 cm)
Credit LineGift of Lucia Woods Lindley
Object number2006.91
Status
Not on viewMaecenas, the wealthy patron of Horace, Virgil, and other literary figures, had a palatial villa constructed at Tivoli where he could entertain guests during the hot Roman summers. The villa was bequeathed to Octavian (Emperor Augustus) at the death of Maecenas, who had long served as the emperor’s close advisor.
In Lallemand’s depiction, a peasant girl riding a horse and a young shepherd boy walking alongside provide the perfect foil to the grand personage whose name is literally synonymous with "patron of the arts."
Jean Baptiste Lallemand
n.d.
Giovanni Battista Piranesi
1763
Jean-Baptiste (called François) Collignon
1633
