Paris, Seen from the Heights of the Père Lachaise | |
Artist: | Louise-Joséphine Sarazin de Belmont |
Year: | 1842–1859 |
Type: | oil on canvas |
Height Metric: | 140 |
Width Metric: | 198 |
Museum: | Musée des Augustins de Toulouse |
City: | Toulouse |
Paris, Seen from the Heights of the Père Lachaise (French: Paris, vu des hauteurs du Père Lachaise) is a landscape painting made between 1842 and 1859 by Louise-Joséphine Sarazin de Belmont. The painting depicts Père Lachaise cemetery.
The artist gave this painting to the Musée des Augustins de Toulouse in 1859, in memory of Augustine Dufresne (1789–1842), widow of Antoine-Jean Gros.
It was shown in the 1994 exhibition Toulouse à l'époque romantique.
The foreground shows the family tombs of Gros and Dufresne.[1] The Italianate aspect of the landscape is similar to landscapes made by the artist in Italy: