Art critic Kenneth Clark called the preliminary sketch of this painting “as free as the most vigorous Constable” though he later decried the final painting. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this painting whose view was previously painted by the artist’s teacher, Achille Etna Michallon (“ah-SHEEL ET-na mee-sha-LON”). This painting depicts a destroyed structure the artist witnessed on an 1825 trip.
ANSWER: The Bridge at Narni [or Le pont de Narni or View at Narni] (The painting is by Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot.)
[10e] The title bridge at Narni, Ponte d’Augusto, was also sketched years earlier by this artist of The Slave Ship.
ANSWER: J. M. W. Turner [accept Joseph Mallord William Turner]
[10m] This artist depicted multiple Roman bridges in paintings such as Rome and the Ponte Molle and The Battle of the Milvian Bridge. J. M. W. Turner was so inspired by this author’s painting The Embarkation of the Queen of Sheba that he requested one of his paintings to be hung next to it.
ANSWER: Claude Lorrain [or Claude Lorrain; accept Le Lorrain or Claude Gellée]
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