Crater of Popocatépetl
Artist
Jean Baptiste Louis Gros
French, 1793–1870
Date1833
MediumOil on paper laid down on canvas
Dimensions12 x 17 in. (30.5 x 43.2 cm)
Frame: 21 1/2 x 26 1/4 x 2 1/2 in. (54.6 x 66.7 x 6.4 cm)
Frame: 21 1/2 x 26 1/4 x 2 1/2 in. (54.6 x 66.7 x 6.4 cm)
ClassificationsPaintings
Credit LinePurchased with funds given in memory of Harlan Craig Brown
Object number83.7
On View
Not on viewPublished ReferencesManuel Romero de Terreros, El Baron Gros y sus vistas de México (México: Imprementa Universitaria, 1953), 10-11.
"Recent Acquisition," North Carolina Museum of Art Preview (Spring 1984), discussed and illus. (b-w) 10.
Mexico, 19th Century People and Landscapes (Birmingham, AL, Birmingham Museum of Art: Fomento Cultural Banamex, A.C., 1981).
La Chronique des Arts(supplement to the Gazette des Beaux-Arts), no. 1382 (March 1984), 60.
Pablo Diener, "Volcanes y exploradores en el siglo XIX: la construcción del patrimonio por la vía de las ciencias," in La idea de nuestro patrimonio histórico y cultural, Pablo Escalante Gonzalbo, ed. (Cuauhtémoc, Mexico: Dirección General de la Publicaciones, 2011), illus. (b-w) 52.
Exhibition HistoryChapel Hill, NC, Ackland Art Museum, “Time Travels in Nineteenth-Century Landscapes,” February 24–April 3, 2016.
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