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View on the River Roseau, Dominica
Exhibition history
Art Institute of Chicago, Selected Works of Eighteenth-Century French Art in the Collections of The Art Institute of Chicago, Jan. 24 – Mar. 28, 1976, cat. 22. New Orleans Museum of Art, Inventing Acadia: Painting and Place in Louisiana, Nov. 16, 2019 – Jan. 26, 2020, no cat. no., pl. 13. London, Royal Academy of Arts, Entangled Pasts, 1768–Now: Art, Colonialism and Change, Feb. 3 – Apr. 28, 2024, cat. 44.
Publications
Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Collection (Chicago: The Art Institute, 1961), 61. Hans Huth, "Agostino Brunias, Romano: Robert Adam's 'Bred Painter'," Connoisseur 151 (December 1962): 296, fig. 6. Susan Wise and Malcolm Warner, French and British Paintings from 1600 to 1800 in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Collection (Chicago: The Art Institute, 1996), 198–200, ill. Katie A. Pfohl, ed., Inventing Acadia : painting and place in Louisiana, exh. cat. (New Orleans: New Orleans Museum of Art, 2019), 96-97, 98-99 fig. 8, 166 pl. 13, 226. Sarah Lea, "Beauty and Difference: Landscape and Architecture," in Entangled Pasts, 1768–Now: Art, Colonialism and Change, exh. cat. (London: Royal Academy of Arts, 2024), 104 (detail ill.), 105, 117 cat. 44.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Agostino Brunias (Italian, active in England and the West Indies, 1758–96)
- Date
- 1770–80
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 84.1 × 158 cm (33 1/8 × 62 3/16 in.); Framed: 99.4 × 173.1 × 10.8 cm (39 1/8 × 68 1/8 × 4 1/4 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- oil on canvas
- Style
- 18th Century
- Place
- United Kingdom
- Department
- Painting and Sculpture of Europe
- Credit line
- Gift of Emily Crane Chadbourne
- Accession no.
- 1953.14
Provenance
Emily Crane Chadbourne, Stone Ridge, New York by 1952; given to the Art Institute, 1953.
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Open-access museum record · AT-00001246
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