Louis GAUFFIER's guest appearances

Louis GAUFFIER

National Gallery of Australia | Audio Tour | French Painting

Edgar Degas

Saint Sebastian

Frédéric Bazille

Hubert Robert

Jules LAURENS

Monsieur Courbet

Paul GUIGOU

Jean RAOUX

Eugène ISABEY

Simon VOUET

Jean RANC

Alphonse Leroy

Alfred SISLEY

Joshua Commanding

André Vincent

OwlTail

Louis Gauffier’s Vallombrosa and the Arno Valley Seen from the Paradisino is a landscape that brings together a series of often competing influences and sources: close attention to the details of nature; Neo-classicism’s mathematical description of space; ‘nature’ as it was described at the time by the poet and philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau; and, in turn, the Romantic ideal of man and nature in harmony.By bringing these disparate sources together, Gauffier produces a theatricalised landscape. The terrace in the foreground acts as a stage, beyond which the landscape is both warm and awesome, a place to wander and find one’s self, as the monk on our left indicates. The landscape unfolds in a series of layers, where men might come to recognise their democratic sensibility and their individualism.

Louis Gauffier’s Vallombrosa and the Arno Valley Seen from the Paradisino is a landscape that brings together a series of often competing influences and sources: close attention to the details of nature; Neo-classicism’s mathematical description of space; ‘nature’ as it was described at the time by the poet and philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau; and, in turn, the Romantic ideal of man and nature in harmony.<br><br>By bringing these disparate sources together, Gauffier produces a theatricalised landscape. The terrace in the foreground acts as a stage, beyond which the landscape is both warm and awesome, a place to wander and find one’s self, as the monk on our left indicates. The landscape unfolds in a series of layers, where men might come to recognise their democratic sensibility and their individualism.

Louis GAUFFIER, Vallombrosa and the Arno Valley Seen from the Paradisino [Le couvent de Vallombrosa et le val d’Arno vus du Paradisino] 1796