PERROT, Antoine Marie

(b. 1787 Paris, d. 1849 Paris)

French painter. He was a pupil of Achille Michallon, and specialised in landscape painting like his teacher. Perrot exhibited his architectural and topographical paintings consistently at the Paris Salon between the years 1824 and 1849 and was admired for the faithfulness with which he rendered the ruins of Medieval structures and captured the soft orange-pink light of Tuscany.

Perrot was in Florence in 1837 and 1838. Some of his topographical views were published (undated) in Florence with an accompanying text in French and Italian as Modelli di topografia disegni ed acquerelli da A.M.P. The titles of his catalogued Salon paintings provide us today with an itinerary showing the artist traversed Italy from Rome to Florence and continued to Pisa the year after the present work was painted.

View of the River Arno at Florence

This bird’s view of the Arno is taken from a viewpoint near the left bank of the Arno looking upstream towards the Ponte Vecchio. To the right can be seen the Uffizi.

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View outside Florence

From the artist’s visit to Florence we have several views of the Arno and the city’s recognisable landmarks. The present view shows the campagna just outside the city. The vantage was likely from atop the Arcetri hill (where today the Arcetri observatory, built in 1864, is situated), looking down towards Florence beyond the Torre del Gallo. The Arno river is just visible in the background to the left.

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