id: 150118 accession number: 1980.4 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1980.4 updated: 2024-03-26 01:59:46.201000 The Bathers, Souvenir of the Banks of the Anio River at Tivoli, c. 1860/1861. Théodore Caruelle d' Aligny (French, 1798–1871). Oil on wood panel; framed: 58.5 x 60.5 x 8 cm (23 1/16 x 23 13/16 x 3 1/8 in.); unframed: 37.5 x 41 cm (14 3/4 x 16 1/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund 1980.4 title: The Bathers, Souvenir of the Banks of the Anio River at Tivoli title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1860/1861 creation date earliest: 1860 creation date latest: 1861 current location: creditline: Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund copyright: --- culture: France, 19th century technique: oil on wood panel department: Modern European Painting and Sculpture collection: Mod Euro - Painting 1800-1960 type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Théodore Caruelle d' Aligny (French, 1798–1871) - artist Théodore Caruelle d'Aligny's early artistic practice was spent in the ateliers of mythological genre painter Jean-Baptiste Regnault (1754-1829) and landscape artist Louis-Étienne Watelet (1780-1866). Aligny first exhibited at the Salon of 1822 with Daphnis and Chloé (location unknown), which received little notice. As was the custom for artists in the nineteenth century, Aligny made a pilgrimage to Italy, where he remained until 1827. While in Rome, he met Corot (q.v.), whom Aligny acknowledged as his master, although Corot was only two years older. Aligny traveled and sketched in the Roman countryside with Corot, Édouard Bertin (1797-1871), Prosper Barbot (1798-1878), and Léon Fleury (1804-1858). Characteristic of Aligny's landscapes is a detailed study of nature based on careful observation and medi-tation. He made numerous drawings and oil sketches directly from nature for his own study and for finished paintings, which would be completed in his studio. Upon his return to Paris in 1827, he exhibited in the Salon of that year, where he again attracted little attention. The following year marked the beginning of frequent retreats to the forest of Fontainebleau near Paris, where he often sketched en plein air alongside Corot, Diaz de la Peña (q.v.), and Rousseau (q.v.). Aligny began exhibiting regularly at the Salon after 1831, when one of the six landscape paintings he entered won him a second-class medal. In 1837 he received a first-class medal for Prometheus on the Caucasus (Musée du Louvre, Paris), a work that was bought by the state. As a result, landscape painters seeking apprenticeship flocked to his studio the following years, and he received numerous state commissions. In 1861 Aligny accepted the position of director of the École des Beaux-Arts in Lyons, where he resided, worked, and continued to sketch after nature until his death in 1871. --- measurements: Framed: 58.5 x 60.5 x 8 cm (23 1/16 x 23 13/16 x 3 1/8 in.); Unframed: 37.5 x 41 cm (14 3/4 x 16 1/8 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: Signed lower center: th. aligny translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Year in Review: 1980 opening date: 1981-06-24T04:00:00 Year in Review: 1980. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (June 24-July 19, 1981). title: Visions of Landscape: East and West opening date: 1982-02-17T05:00:00 Visions of Landscape: East and West. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 17-March 21, 1982). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': "Paris. Salon (1861), no. 24, Les baigneuses, souvenir des bords de l'Anio, à Tivoli.", 'opening_date': None} * {'description': 'London, Hazlitt, Gooden & Fox. The Lure of Rome: Some Northern Artists in Italy in the Nineteenth Century (1979), no. 47, fig. 42.', 'opening_date': '1979-01-01T00:00:00'} --- PROVENANCE Possibly Paris, Aligny sale, Drouot, 8-9 March 1878 (lot 1), Les Baigneuses. Paris art market. Bought in 1979 by Hazlitt, Gooden & Fox, London. Purchased by the CMA on 22 November 1980. date: footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Lee, Sherman E. “The Year in Review for 1980.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 68, no. 6 (June 1981): 163–219. page number: Mentioned: p. 211, no. 19 url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25159730 Argencourt, Louise d', and Roger Diederen. Catalogue of Paintings. Pt. 4. European Paintings of the 19th Century. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1974. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 2-4, Vol. I, no. 1 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1980.4/1980.4_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1980.4/1980.4_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1980.4/1980.4_full.tif