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Jørgen Roed (b. Ringsted 1808, d. Copenhagen 1888)

Italian landscape, probably from the region around Paestum or outside Rome near Ostia. C. 1838. Signed with monogram. Oil on paper laid on canvas. 30 × 40 cm.

Exhibited: Kunstforeningen, “Udvalg af Malerier og Studier af Etatsråd, Professor Jørgen Roed”, 1889 no. 19. Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, “På sporet af Jørgen Roed. Italien 1837–1841”, 1991 no. 15.

Literature: Jens Peter Munk, “Landskabet og Arkitekturen” in “På sporet af Jørgen Roed. Italien 1837–1841”, exhibition catalogue, Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen 1991, mentioned and ill. pp. 34–35.

Here Jens Peter Munk writes the following about the painting (in Danish):

“As in the Ischia picture, the foreground is painted with a broad, pasty brush, while the background and sky are thinly and delicately painted. In a bold compositional balancing act, the subject is literally built up stone by stone in a line from the two blocks of the foreground above the bushes that moves up the slope towards a corner of a tower-like building on the top right. Next, the eye is directed in the opposite direction via some rock fragments or ruins to a road that cuts diagonally through the lower lying landscape towards the sea. In this small detail lies the tension of the picture, but the starting point is indeed the necessary architectural block.”

Provenance: The artist's wife Emilie Roed (1806–1894) (1889). Bruun Rasmussen auction 317, 1974 no. 201. Preben Rørvig (1991). Bruun Rasmussen auction 739, 2005 no. 1411, ill. p. 15.

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