Franz Kaisermann (1765-1833)
Ruins of the Temple of the Dioscuri in Rome’s Roman Forum
Signed ‘Kaisermann f’ (bottom center)
Pen and black ink, watercolour
Provenance: Rothschild Collection (Château de Ferrière)
Dimensions: Artwork: H 100 cm, W 66 cm; with frame: H 141 cm, W 113 cm
The Swiss artist Franz Kaisermann (1765–1833) moved to Italy at the age of eighteen and worked between Rome and Naples. In Rome, Kaisermann studied under Abraham-Louis-Rodolphe Ducros (1748–1810), another Swiss artist who also worked mainly in Rome. The Roman Forum, including the Temple of Castor and Pollux, became a recurring theme in Kaisermann’s work, as this drawing demonstrates.
