View Of Tivoli, Carl Wuttke, Oil On Canvas

Carl Wuttke
VIEW OF TIVOLI

Oil on canvas
32 x 25 cm
Inscribed and dated lower left: Tivoli. 1875Signed lower right: C. Wuttke and dated lower left: Tivoli 1875

Tivoli, with its mixture of ancient temples and grandiose nature, its picturesque location and easy access from Rome, was part of the fixed tour program of the Grand Tour travelers, and was painted and drawn from the 17th to the 20th century by all the important artists working in Italy. Many "grand tourists" wanted to take home the souvenir of the Temple of the Sibyl, spectacularly situated above one of the three waterfalls. Since they could not yet buy a postcard or point their camera at the scene themselves, the artists, many of whom also traveled to Italy, had a wonderful outlet and tried to outdo each other by creating ever more beautiful works. The landscape painter and globetrotter Carl Wuttke, who regularly traveled to the United States, China, and Egypt, was no exception. His view of Tivoli, wonderfully airy and filled with light, is in no way inferior to the works of his famous predecessors.