Record details

• generalData.authorNameInListings

  Tomàs Moragas (1837-1906)

• generalData.title

  Osteria della Via Appia

• generalData.creationDate

  1875

• technicalData.measurements

  100 x 150 cm

• technicalData.description

  Oil on canvas

• technicalData.complementaryDescription

  The painting called "Osteria della Via Appia" is one a costumbrist scene which the artist was used to produce. Moragas depicted a bucolic, delicate landscape, combining his most reoccurring palette: green, ochres, and soft yellows. Horses and their riders are outside a building in ruins turned into an “osteria”, a rest stop, on one side of the Via Appia, one of the principal roads that lead to Rome from the south.
  In this case, Moragas is not introducing fantastical or fictional elements. Horses are drinking from the through, and some women have come to wash pieces of clothing or sheets. On the right side, some cows are being followed by a man on a horse. Altogether, the painting depicts what could be a very quotidian scene: travellers, peasants or merchants, interrupting their journey to rest, drink and have something to eat.