A moonlit landscape with deer by a lake, a hilltop castle beyond

Details

Carlo Labruzzi (Rome 1748-1817 Perugia)
A moonlit landscape with deer by a lake, a hilltop castle beyond
oil on canvas, oval
29½ x 39¼ in. (75 x 99.7 cm.)

Provenance

Commissioned by the Duke of Gloucester but not finished in time and acquired by John Thorpe for Henry Blundell in 1777.

Literature

Ince Catalogue, 1803, p. 238, no. XCIII, 'A Moon-light, painted for the Duke of Glocester when at Rome, by Labruzzi, a noted artist; but being not finished in time for the Duke, Mr. Thorpe bought it for this collection. Labruzzi travelled with Sir Richard Hoare, in order to assist him in some beautiful drawings, which were made in a journey to Brundusium'.
Catalogue of the exhibition, Paintings from Ince Blundell Hall, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, 1960, p. 6.
A. Cera, La Pittura Neoclassica Italiana, 1987, pl. 459 (described as signed and dated 1777).

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Lot Essay

Henry Blundell also acquired in 1777 a set of four small landscapes on panel by Labruzzi, one of them dated in that year, which had similarly been ordered originally by the Duke of Gloucester (Ince Catalogue, 1803, pp. 247-8, nos. CXXX, CXXXI, CXXXIV, and CXXXV), and presumably also the larger landscape, similarly dated 1777, reproduced in Cera, op. cit., pl. 458.

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