Etienne Bosch
City view of Rome
ca. 1900
Oil on canvas
H. 75 x W. 99 cm
Signed E Bosch (lower left)
This work depicts a view from the bank of the Tiber of the Bridge of Angels ("Ponte Sant" Angelo) and St Peter's Basilica. The painting still shows the houses that stood in front of St Peter's Basilica. As these were demolished even before WWII, this work offers a special historical image of this part of the city at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century.
Born in Amsterdam (1863°), Etienne Bosch was a painter of genre scenes and landscapes, watercolourist and engraver. A pupil at the Academy of The Hague, he travelled through France, England and Italy. He exhibited at the Exposition universelle de Bruxelles in 1910.
Museum: The Hague