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An oil on canvas by the French artist, graphic artist, and sculptor Théodore Géricault, who is considered one of the founders of Romanticism in painting. It was intended as one of a series of four works that would show different times of the day. But the author completed only three.
The painting depicts an aqueduct that he saw during his trip to Italy in 1816–1817. The place impressed him so much with its grandeur that he decided to convey it in maximum detail: threatening rain clouds, the setting sun, the massiveness of the structure, and a sufficiently realistic landscape around. This conveys the connection between the natural and the human, which coexist harmoniously. And thanks to the play of light and shadow, the canvas conveys the variability and power of the element that is approaching the quiet place.
