Camille SAGLIO (Strasbourg, 1804 - Paris, 1889) View... Lot 36

Camille SAGLIO (Strasbourg, 1804 - Paris, 1889) View of the surroundings of Rome Canvas. Signed lower right and dated 1848. 130 x 96,5 cm. In its original gilt frame. Rare are the works of this remarkable landscape painter of which the Rolin museum in Autun preserves a beautiful View taken in Civita Castellana. Camille Saglio belonged to a brilliant Alsatian dynasty, founded in the 18th century by an entrepreneur from Lombardy, and which included industrialists, renowned scientists, artists, a curator of antiquities at the Louvre, etc. Camille Saglio himself was director of two sugar refineries. He learned painting in Düsseldorf from Wilhelm Schirmer, before becoming a student of Camille Roqueplan in Paris. From 1839 to 1875, he exhibited numerous landscapes of France and Italy at the Paris Salon.