1822
oil
paper
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Civitella Seen from the North is a 1822 oil by Johann Joachim Faber, a Romanticism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
This painting shows rolling hills with rocky outcrops under a bright, partly cloudy sky. The foreground has patches of green grass and brown earth, with a few scattered trees. On the left, a steep cliff rises sharply, and at the top sits a small, dark building—maybe a castle or fort. The brushstrokes are loose, and the colors are soft but warm, with blues and greens dominating the sky and hills. The artist used a technique where paint is laid on thickly in some spots, giving the hills texture. This was common in the 1820s for landscape sketches. Check out the technique: impasto to see how artists use thick paint like this.
Johann Joachim Faber (12 April 1778 – 2 August 1846) was a landscape painter who was born in Hamburg.
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