TitleThe Roman Campagna
Date1859
MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsUnframed: 43 × 62 3/4 in.
Framed: 54 3/8 × 74 1/4 × 4 in.
SignedSigned at lower left: "A. Flamm 1859"
Credit LineNational Academy of Design, New York, NY, Bequest of James A. Suydam, 1865
Object number448-P
Label TextGerman painter Albert Flamm was a prominent student of Andreas Achenbach and later an instructor at the academy in Düsseldorf. His treatments of the Italian countryside during the 1850s favored bright sunlight and open expanses often portrayed by Suydam and his American colleagues. Within Suydam's collection, Flamm's work suggests a pendant in both scale and ambition to Achenbach's massive Off Ostend of the same year, and which Suydam likely purchased at the same auction in 1861. The opposition in tone between these two works of similar scale reflects a recurring theme of paired opposites in Suydam's collection, including the two works by Jasper Cropsey included here.
