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Lot description
We know that Etienne Allegrain was a talented landscape painter, very attached to the French tradition of this genre. He learned by Nicolas Poussin the combination of landscape as a place representing the complexity of human experience and the inclusion - even in the distance - of ruins and views derived from antiquity. The depiction of such authentic landscapes, in which the human presence in the scene is entirely negligible, truly demonstrates the seventeenth-century artist’s need to make nature the absolute protagonist of the painting, capable of expressing - as with history painting - the fullness of human feelings. We do not know whether the painter ever visited Italy, even less Rome. However, arch tectural elements in such an uncontaminated context, such as the historiated column and a circular building similar to the Pantheon, dispels any doubts about the lesson learned from Poussin.