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Camille Saglio (Strasbourg, 1804 - Paris, 1889) View of the surroundings of Rome Oil on canvas 130 x 96,5 cm Signed lower right and dated 1848 In its beautiful original gilt frame Rare are the works of this remarkable landscape painter of which the Rolin museum in Autun preserves a beautiful View taken in Civita Castellana. Camille Saglio belonged to a brilliant Alsatian dynasty, founded in the 18th century by an entrepreneur from Lombardy, and which included industrialists, renowned scientists, artists, a curator of antiquities at the Louvre, etc. Camille Saglio himself was director of two sugar refineries. He learned painting in Düsseldorf from Wilhelm Schirmer, before becoming a student of Camille Roqueplan in Paris. From 1839 to 1875, he exhibited numerous landscapes of France and Italy at the Paris Salon. The majestic composition of our painting, all in finesse and clarity, reflects the last moments of the classical landscape, bathed in the light of Italy. The construction is rigorous, the coloring limpid, the technique impeccable but sensitive. Away from the humid forests of Barbizon, the work is part of a trend that was embodied at the same time by the brothers Achille and Léon Bénouville or Saglio's own son-in-law, Alfred de Curzon.
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Camille Saglio (Strasbourg, 1804 - Paris, 1889) View of the surroundings of Rome Oil on canvas 130 x 96,5 cm Signed lower right and dated 1848 In its beautiful original gilt frame Rare are the works of this remarkable landscape painter of which the Rolin museum in Autun preserves a beautiful View taken in Civita Castellana. Camille Saglio belonged to a brilliant Alsatian dynasty, founded in the 18th century by an entrepreneur from Lombardy, and which included industrialists, renowned scientists, artists, a curator of antiquities at the Louvre, etc. Camille Saglio himself was director of two sugar refineries. He learned painting in Düsseldorf from Wilhelm Schirmer, before becoming a student of Camille Roqueplan in Paris. From 1839 to 1875, he exhibited numerous landscapes of France and Italy at the Paris Salon. The majestic composition of our painting, all in finesse and clarity, reflects the last moments of the classical landscape, bathed in the light of Italy. The construction is rigorous, the coloring limpid, the technique impeccable but sensitive. Away from the humid forests of Barbizon, the work is part of a trend that was embodied at the same time by the brothers Achille and Léon Bénouville or Saglio's own son-in-law, Alfred de Curzon.
