The Cemetery at Pronoia near Nauplia, Carl Rottmann, ca. 1841–47

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The Cemetery at Pronoia near Nauplia, ca. 1841–47, Oil on canvas, 10 x 12 in. ( x cm), Paintings, Carl Rottmann (German, Handschuhsheim 1797–1850 Munich), In 1834, King Ludwig I of Bavaria commissioned a cycle of Greek landscapes from Rottmann that eventually numbered thirty-eight canvases (Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen, Munich). This sketch is the most freely painted of some half a dozen studies for Pronoia (1846/47), which commemorates the burial place of Bavarian soldiers who helped vanquish the Ottoman Turks at nearby Nauplia in 1822, during the Greek War of Independence

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