This romantic painting signed and dated: Caffi 1855, chosen by Mary Pittaluga to illustrate the back cover of her monographic work on Ippolito Caffi, it has been kept until recently in a prestigious Florentine family collection.

This work has be inscribed to the maturity of the Belluno painter, which beholds all of the pictorical qualities that have contributed in making Ippolito Caffi one of the most eminent Italian landscape artists of the XIXth century.

The view depicts one of the most beautiful and romantic spots of Rome: the sunset seen from the Pincio rotunda with the San Peter’s dome and the Castel Sant’Angelo on the background with the granite columns soar in the backlight.

On the foreground, few figures animate the scene: a young girl playing with the wheel is observed by two women and a monk.

This subject was very dear to the painter, who also depicted in another works, one of which can be found at the Galleria Internazionale of Modern Art of Ca’ Pesaro in Venice showing the same scene in a bright morning light.