View outside Florence

1838 · Private collection

landscape

From the artist's visit to Florence we have several views of the Arno and the city's recognisable landmarks. The present view shows the campagna just outside the city. The vantage was likely from atop the Arcetri hill (where today the Arcetri observatory, built in 1864, is situated), looking down towards Florence beyond the Torre del Gallo.

About the Artist

Antoine Marie Perrot

1787 – 1849

French painter. He was a pupil of Achille Michallon, and specialised in landscape painting like his teacher. Perrot exhibited his architectural and topographical paintings consistently at the Paris Salon between the years 1824 and 1849 and was admired for the faithfulness with which he rendered the ruins of Medieval structures and captured the soft orange-pink light of Tuscany. Perrot was in Florence in 1837 and 1838. Some of his topographical views were published (undated) in Florence with an accompanying text in French and Italian as Modelli di topografia disegni ed acquerelli da A.M.P. The titles of his catalogued Salon paintings provide us today with an itinerary showing the artist traversed Italy from Rome to Florence and continued to Pisa the year after the present work was painted.

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