# View in the Park of the Villa Ludovisi in Rome [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [VERNET, Claude-Joseph]() - Date: 1751-1800 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 75 x 100 cm ## Commentary View in the Park of the Villa Ludovisi in Rome 1749 Oil on canvas, 75 x 100 cm The Hermitage, St. Petersburg The many antiquities uncovered at the villa that Cardinal Ludovisi created in the 17th century on the site of ancient Rome's celebrated Sallustian Gardens made it a place of pilgrimage for artists, writers, and travelers. Vernet, who worked in Rome for 20 years, depicted himself in the right foreground with his wife and young son. The artist and a friend are discussing a sketch, perhaps one of the lost studies in oils made on location that endow Vernet's finest landscapes with the precision of immediate observation. ## Related artworks - [A Seashore \(detail\)]() - [A Seashore]() - [Capriccio view of Montferrat]() - ["Clair de Lune"]() - [Coastal Landscape]() - [Coastal Landscape with Fishermen Hauling in their Nets]() - [Coastal Scene in Moonlight]() - [Coastal Scene]() - [Coastal View with a Rainbow]() - [Girls Bathing at the Seaside]() - [Italian Harbour Scene]() - [Italianate River Landscape]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()