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Jean-Joseph-Xavier Bidauld (Carpentras 1758-1846 Montmorency)
Lot 241 PROPERTY FROM A DISTINGUISHED PRIVATE COLLECTION (LOTS 129, 193, 240, 241 AND 245)

Jean-Joseph-Xavier Bidauld (Carpentras 1758-1846 Montmorency)

A mountainous river landscape with the Monastery of San Cosimato, to the north of Rome

Closed7 December 2018

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Jean-Joseph-Xavier Bidauld (Carpentras 1758-1846 Montmorency)
A mountainous river landscape with the Monastery of San Cosimato, to the north of Rome
oil on paper, laid down on canvas
9 ¾ x 12 3/8 in. (24.8 x 31.5 cm.)

Anonymous sale [Property from a Private Collection]; Sotheby's, London, 26 April 2007, lot 138.

Specialist note

The monastery of San Cosimato was first built in circa 500 AD on the ruins of an old Roman villa. Dedicated to Saints Cosmos and Damien, its first abbot was Saint Benedict, the father of Western monasticism, though it passed into the control of the Franciscan order in 1680, under whose control it remains to this day. The present work was probably executed during Bidauld's Roman sojourn of 1780-1795.