Lot 46
46
Gaspar van Wittel, called Gaspare Vanvitelli (1653-1736)
From the Collection of the late Lore and Rudolf Heinemann
Gaspar van Wittel, called Gaspare Vanvitelli (1653-1736)

View of Mergellina on the Bay of Naples, with Capodimonte beyond

Details
Gaspar van Wittel, called Gaspare Vanvitelli (1653-1736)
View of Mergellina on the Bay of Naples, with Capodimonte beyond
red and blue chalk, pen and brown ink, watercolor, squared in red and black chalk
9¾ x 183/8 in. (257 x 472 mm.)
Provenance
Conseiller Nourri, his mount (?).
with F. Strolin, Paris.

Lot Essay

Preparatory to a section to the left of Vanvitelli's View of Posillipo with the Palazzo Donn'Anna, Naples in the distance now in the collection of the Duchess of Lerma at San Roque near Cadiz, G. Briganti, Gaspar van Wittel, Milan, 1996, no. 392. This picture was part of a series of Neapolitan views formerly in the collection of the Dukes of Medinaceli probably commissioned by Vanvitelli's patron the Spanish Viceroy Don Luis de la Cerda.

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