Probably by Josephus Augustus Knip, 'Green Mountains', around 1810
| Full title | Green Mountains |
|---|---|
| Artist | Probably by Josephus Augustus Knip |
| Artist dates | 1777 - 1847 |
| Date made | around 1810 |
| Medium and support | Oil on paper laid on canvas |
| Dimensions | 20 × 37 cm |
| Acquisition credit | The Gere Collection, on long-term loan to the National Gallery |
| Inventory number | L843 |
| Location | On loan: Gere Collection Paintings to the Ashmolean (2024 - 2026), The Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, Oxford, UK |
| Image copyright | The Gere Collection, on long-term loan to the National Gallery, © Private collection 2000. Used by permission |
| Collection | Main Collection |
The location of these mountains, with their distinctive peaks silhouetted against a blue sky, has not been identified. It is clear, however, that we are not meant to read them as rising from a flat bare plain. The artist has followed the advice to painters of landscape oil sketches of Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes, a central figure in the development of the landscape oil sketch, who taught that the artist should focus on a motif in the middle distance while leaving the foreground empty.
The attribution to Knip is based on the resemblance of this sketch to other depictions of green Italian mountains by this artist.
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