Mountain Torrents Flooding a City

Antonio Basoli, before 1839

The image shows a landscape with cascading waterfalls, a city integrated into cliffs, jagged mountains, ancient architecture, loose and expressive brushstrokes, monochromatic sepia tones, figures in a boat on… · description from the collection

Collection data

Artist: Antonio Basoli ¹
Date: before 1839 ¹
Medium: pen and brown ink with brown-gray wash over graphite on laid paper ¹
Original: 4,892 × 3,214 px ¹
License: CC0 (National Gallery of Art Open Access)
Credit: National Gallery of Art, Washington, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Object record, National Gallery of Art

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Close in palette, light and contrast · computed

A work made of color woodblock print; chuban.

The image shows two figures seated closely together. The figure on the right holds a flute-like instrument pressed to their lips. The figure on the left rests their hand on the instrument with eyes closed.

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Similar light, opposite temperature · computed

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