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A Storm in the Roman Campagna
(18th and 19th Centuries )
A violent thunderstorm has arisen in the Roman Campagna, causing a peasant family wearing the distinctive "Ciociara" costume of the region to seek refuge beneath a tree. Also sheltering are a couple of monks lost in the shadows. Flashes of lightening momentarily illuminate the scene, revealing a cross silhouetted against the sky at the left and a gleaming tower at the right.
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Provenance
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Don Marcello Massarenti Collection, Rome [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1902, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
Geographies
Italy (Place of Origin)
Measurements
H: 11 7/16 x W: 8 7/8 in. (29 x 22.5 cm)
Credit Line
Acquired by Henry Walters with the Massarenti Collection, 1902
Location in Museum
Not on view
Accession Number
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In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
37.1150