Oil paint on canvas
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<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/matthew-ridley-corbet-114" aria-label="More by Matthew Ridley Corbet" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">Matthew Ridley Corbet</a>
Val dArno Evening
Presented by the Trustees of the Chantrey Bequest 1901
adults
architecture
Arno valley
cities, towns, villages (non-UK)
countries and continents
evening
features
figure
fine arts and music
Italy
landscape
man-made landmarks (non-UK)
natural features (non-UK)
objects
people
places
sculpture
Soffiano
terrace
times of the day
townscape, distant
townscapes / man-made features
valley
Villa Tolomei
wall
<p>Lincolnshire born Corbet studied at the newly opened Slade School of Art and later at the Royal Academy Schools where he was taught by Frederic Leighton. In 1880 he went to Italy for three years where he studied under Giovanni Costa in Rome. This painting shows the influence of Costa’s ‘Etruscan’ style of composition with its long horizontal format, simplified form and use of colour and tone to evoke the fall of light.</p><p><em>Gallery label, November 2016</em></p>
painting oil paint canvas
7 August 2014 – 24 July 2022
2022-07-24
7 August 2014
2014-08-07
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2014-08-07
Gallery 9
Collection based display
Val d’Arno: Evening
support: 908 × 2089 mm
frame: 1243 × 2436 × 185 mm
Presented by the Trustees of the <a href="/search?gid=999999977" data-gtm-name="tombstone_link_bequest" data-gtm-destination="list-page--search-results">Chantrey Bequest</a> 1901
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<p>Lincolnshire born Corbet studied at the newly opened Slade School of Art and later at the Royal Academy Schools where he was taught by Frederic Leighton. In 1880 he went to Italy for three years where he studied under Giovanni Costa in Rome. This painting shows the influence of Costa’s ‘Etruscan’ style of composition with its long horizontal format, simplified form and use of colour and tone to evoke the fall of light.</p>
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<p><b>N01899</b> VAL D'ARNO: EVENING 1901
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<br/>Inscr. ‘M. R. Corbet’ b.r.
<br/>Canvas, 35 3/4×82 1/4 (91×209).
<br/>Chantrey Purchase from the artist 1901.
<br/><i>Exh:</i> R.A., 1901 (863).
<br/><i>Repr:</i>
<i>Royal Academy Pictures</i>, 1901, p.68; <i>Magazine of Art</i>, 1902, p.237.</p>
<p>This view of the valley of the River Arno is taken from the terrace of the Villa Tolomei beyond Bellosguardo, south of Florence. The village on the left is Soffiano, with Signa just visible in the distance. Farther away the blue mountains near Pisa rise from the plain, and the peaks of the Carrara are seen against the red after-glow.</p>
<p><b>Published in:</b>
<br/>Mary Chamot, Dennis Farr and Martin Butlin, <i>The Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture</i>, London 1964, I</p>
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Catalogue entry
2004-07-16T00:00:00
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CATALOGUE_ENTRY
adults architecture Arno valley cities, towns, villages (non-UK) countries and continents evening features figure fine arts and music Italy landscape man-made landmarks (non-UK) natural features (non-UK) objects people places sculpture Soffiano terrace times of the day townscape, distant townscapes / man-made features valley Villa Tolomei wall