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| Keywords: Monks in the Cloister of the Church of Gesù e Maria, Rome.jpg en Date 1808 Medium Oil on canvas Dimensions 19 1/2 x 15 3/8 in 49 5 x 39 1 cm This painting was first exhibited at the Paris Salon of 1808 It combines an appreciation for seventeenth-century Dutch cabinet pictures which had been fashionable among French collectors since the late eighteenth century with a new interest in the everyday life of contemporary Italians In many of Granet �s Roman scenes iconic settings are passed over in favor of lovingly observed but overlooked ones such as this cloister located on the Via del Corso near his studio Among the earliest admirers of these genre paintings was Granet �s closest colleague in Rome the history painter J A D Ingres 1808 Photo taken at The Met in March 2016 by David Torcivia François Marius Granet other versions PD-old-auto-1923 1849 Painting Paintings Painters from France François Marius Granet | ||||
