- Classical landscape with figures and ruins
- B.M.338
- 17th - 18th century
- French
Length: 114.6 cm
Width: 162.4 cm
Length: With frame 143 cm
Width: With frame 189 cm
Depth: With frame 11 cm
Etienne Allegrain was a landscape painter and a member of the Académie who produced a number of works for the royal palaces. He was heavily influenced by the work of Claude Lorrain and Nicholas Poussin, the most important landscape painters of 17th century France. This painting is executed in their manner with a carefully worked out foreground, middle ground and background. The exact subject matter is not known, but the Classical temple on the hill on the right suggests that it is set in Classical Greece or Rome.