Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes

1750–1819 · France

Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes (6 December 1750 – 16 February 1819) was a French painter. A neoclassicist artist, he was influential in elevating the status of En plein air (open-air painting). Wikipedia

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Works

“Cicero discovering the tomb of Archimedes”, 1787 — Louvre
“Farm-buildings at the Villa Farnese: the Two Poplar Trees”, 1775–1825 — Louvre
“Heroic landscape with lemnian activities” — Musées Nationaux Récupération
“The Banks of the Rance, Brittany”, 1802 — Metropolitan Museum of Art
“View of Rome in the Morning.”, 1775–1825 — Louvre
“Mount Athos Carved as a Monument to Alexander the Great”, 1796 — Art Institute of Chicago
“Alexander at the Tomb of Cyrus the Great”, 1796 — Art Institute of Chicago
“Self-portrait of Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes”, 1775–1825 — Louvre
“Classical Landscape with Figures Drinking by a Fountain”, 1806 — Toledo Museum of Art
“Eruption of Vesuvius arrived on August 24 of the year 79”, 1813 — Musée des Augustins
“A Wooded Landscape with a Bacchic Scene”, 1810 — Matthiesen Gallery
“A Capriccio of Rome with the Finish of a Marathon”, 1788 — Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
“Italian Landscape with Bathers”, 1790 — Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
“Landscape with Ruins”, 1782 — Los Angeles County Museum of Art
“Italian Landscape”, 1783 — Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
“Classical Landscape with Figures and Sculpture”, 1788 — J. Paul Getty Museum
“Mountainous Landscape with Oxen panicking whilst drawing a Cart”, 1807 — National Trust
“View of Rome”, 1782 — Cleveland Museum of Art
“Landscape of Ancient Greece”, 1786 — Detroit Institute of Arts
“Landscape, Moonlight”, 1817 — Bowes Museum