To the left we see the ruins of Aqua Claudia, one of the aqueducts that provided Rome with water. The traveling company consists of a small family, which, judging by the clothes, are farmers from the region around Rome. The costumes played an important role in folklore painting. The artists found role models from both prints and real life. Louis Léopold Robert from Switzerland was a contemporary artist who worked with similar motives. 3/1-2022 The everyday lives of rural Romans often provided subject matter for north European painters in Italy. This painting shows a horseman and a family with an ox-drawn cart who have stopped near the ruins of an ancient aqueduct. Even if this is a fairly generalised picture of the treeless Roman Campania, the ruins can be identified as the remains of the Aqua Claudia south-east of Rome – it was joined to another aqueduct at a distance from the city, and had water conductors on two levels, as shown in the distant arch. The Finnish-Swedish painter Alexander Lauréus died in Rome in 1823, after spending nearly three years there