(Frascati 1844–1905 Rome) Sunset over a Nile Landscape with the Pyramids in the background, signed and inscribed H. Corrodi Roma, on the reverse remains of an old adhesive label inscribed ... Nilo Cairo..., oil on canvas, 101.6 x 64.5 cm, framed, (W)

Hermann Corrodi; The artist received his initial training together with his brother Arnold under his father, and in 1860 in Geneva with Alexandre Calame. He studied at the Accademia di San Luca in Rome from 1866 and became a member of the local society of artists. In 1872 he went to Paris together with Arnold where they met Jean-Louis Gerome and Ernest Meissonier. From Paris, Corrodi made a short trip to London where he stayed with Lawrence Alma-Tadema and met John Everett Millais and Frederick Leighton. Corrodi exhibited at the Munich World Fair in 1872 and in Vienna in 1873. Both brothers visited the island of Capri and Vienna. They took long trips to Constantinople, Syria, Egypt, Montenegro and Corsica. These eastern landscapes, as well as his genre paintings and the vedute of Rome, would determine Corrodi’s future artistic work. For several years Corrodi spent his summers in Baden-Baden and Bad Homburg where he made useful contacts with noble patrons, including members of the German Imperial Family and the British crown. Corrodi’s fanciful vedute are characterized by their richness of invention, their light colouring and illuminating effects.