BIDAULD, Jean-Joseph-Xavier
(b. 1758, Carpentras, d. 1846, Montmorency)

The Augustan Bridge

1790
Oil on canvas, 101 x 138 cm
Private collection

This landscape depicts the Augustan bridge on the Nera river, and the Nera river valley in the region of Terni near the town of Narni in Italy. The area was a popular destination for landscape painters in the eighteenth century.

This painting was one of four pictures all with the same dimensions which were painted expressly for the agent Antoine-Joseph Sarazin.