Michele Felice Cornè
Classical Landscape with Figures
1804
Physical Qualities
Oil on canvas, Framed: 38 1/4 x 55 1/2 x 2 1/2 in. (97.2 x 141 x 6.4 cm) Sight: 33 1/2 x 50 1/2 in. (85.1 x 128.3 cm)
Credit Line
Dorothy McIlvain Scott Collection
Object Number
2012.266
Michele Cornè was particularly well known for his interior decorations, including murals and paintings created specifically to ornament an architectural scheme. This example was originally intended as an overmantel painting – a picture built into an architectural chimney breast. Paintings inset over mantels and doorways were common in Europe for several centuries before artists such as Cornè brought the idea to Federal America. He worked in Salem and Boston, Massachusetts, as well as Newport, Rhode Island.
Stuart P. Feld, "Boston in the Age of Neo-Classicism 1810-1840", p. 107
On View: American Wing Second Floor, Scott 09
![LANDSCAPE WITH FIGURE SEATED ON A HILLSIDE [TOP]; LANDSCAPE WITH FIGURES NEAR A CROSS [BOTTOM]](https://artbma.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/96165_25714587.jpg)
