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Landscape with banditti: the murder
The exaggerated gestures of the powerful murderer about to stab his pleading victim recall the theatre rather than real life. This is heightened by the dramatic moutainous landscape modelled on the work of Salvator Rosa, whose pictures were highly regarded by eighteenth-century connoisseurs.
Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 69
Acquisition
Purchase, 1953
Measurements
Height
(cm): 73.8
Width
(cm): 98.5
Height
(in): 29
Width
(in): 38
Techniques
oil on canvas
Techniques (fine art)
art dept - fine
Fine Art - painting
Material
oil
canvas
Location
Gallery 04
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