Aniello Falcone (1600-1656)

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Aniello Falcone (1600-1656)

The Ruins of the Roman Arena at Pozzuoli; and A Landscape with a Roman Arch

red chalk
166 x 251mm. and 166 x 218mm. (2)

Provenance

From an album from the collection of Don Gaspar Mendez de Haro y Guzman, Marchese del Carpio
Anon. sale, Christie's, 20 March 1973, lots 28 and 32, the first illustrated (900 gns. and 240 gns. respectively)

Literature

(1) J. Bean, 17th Century Italian Drawings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1979, under no. 163

Exhibited

Naples, Museo di Capodimonte, Civiltà dei Seicento a Napoli, 1984, II, p. 85, nos. 3.27-8, both illustrated

Lot Essay

This and the following lot come from an album assembled by Marchese del Carpio, who was appointed Viceroy of Naples in 1682, and retained that office until his death in 1687. A view of the Arena at Pozzuoli from the same point, with the same provenance as this and the following drawing (Christie's, 20 March 1973, lot 29, illustrated), is now in the Metropolitan Museum, J. Bean, op. cit., no. 163

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