1785-90
Oil on canvas, 25 x 33 cm
Private collection
The present canvas belongs to a group of Italianate landscapes painted directly from nature during the artist's sojourn in Italy in 1785-1790. It employ a romanticizing use of sunlight reminiscent of Claude-Joseph Vernet's sweeping landscapes. (Vernet was the teacher of Bidauld in 1783 in Paris.)
