Apezzo Pass, Titian's House
George Inness, Sr., Apezzo Pass, Titian's House, 1876, oil on artist's board, Gift of Mr. Henry Failing Cabell, public domain, 49.9
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- Title
Apezzo Pass, Titian's House
- Artist
- Date
1876
- Medium
oil on artist's board
- Dimensions (H x W x D)
11 1/2 in x 17 3/8 in
- Inscriptions & Markings
signature: G. Innes 1876, brushed, lower left
- Collection Area
American Art
- Category
Paintings
- Object Type
painting
- Culture
American
- Credit Line
Gift of Mr. Henry Failing Cabell
- Accession Number
49.9
- Copyright
public domain
- Terms
Considered the most outstanding American landscape painter of the 19th century, Inness, like many American artists of his time, was greatly influenced by the landscapes of the French Barbizon School. His Romantic realist style dissolved hard outlines into an accord of atmosphere and color, with the ordered beauty of Claude.
Apezzo Pass, Titian's House dates from the period when his style changed to a more intimate manner of landscape. During this time he began to choose deliberately unpicturesque subjects, relying on broad masses of light and shade and subtle color harmonies for pictorial appeal.
Purchased directly from Inness by Henry Failing—along with Castel Gandolfo and Lake Trasimeno—Apezzo Pass, Titian's House depicts the locale in the Italian Alps north of Venice, where Titian was reputed to have been born in ca. 1485. Inness and his family lived in Florence and Rome during the first half of the 1870s, where he developed the sketches for Apezzo Pass, which was painted after his return to the United States.
- Exhibitions
1998 The Other Nineteenth Century Portland Art Museum
