Lot 162
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TOMMASO RUIZ (ACTIVE NAPLES EARLY-MID 18TH CENTURY)
TOMMASO RUIZ (ACTIVE NAPLES EARLY-MID 18TH CENTURY)
TOMMASO RUIZ (ACTIVE NAPLES EARLY-MID 18TH CENTURY)
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TOMMASO RUIZ (ACTIVE NAPLES EARLY-MID 18TH CENTURY)

The Bay of Naples from the West, with the Chiaia, San Martino, Capodimonte, Castel dell'Ovo and Vesuvius beyond

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TOMMASO RUIZ (ACTIVE NAPLES EARLY-MID 18TH CENTURY)
The Bay of Naples from the West, with the Chiaia, San Martino, Capodimonte, Castel dell'Ovo and Vesuvius beyond
signed and dated 'Tomaso Ruiz F. 1710' (lower right)
oil on canvas
22 3/8 x 59 7/8 in. (56.7 x 152 cm.)
Provenance
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 9 December 2005, lot 204.
Literature
E. Bellucci and C. Naldi, eds., Importanti Dipinti di Veduta, Milan, 2007, pp. 16-18.
E. Bellucci, ed., L'immagine di Napoli nella cartografia europea dal Cinquecento all'Ottocento, Rome, 2022, pp. 14 and 16, fig. 5.

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Lot Essay


Little is known about the life and career of Tommaso Ruiz, but his views of Naples in the eighteenth century provide a key record of the city's development. The present painting is an early work by the artist and may once have belonged to a set of four, not unlike the somewhat smaller set datable to around 1740 sold in these Rooms on 8 December 2017, lot 188. Ruiz describes Naples in vivid colour and detail, depicting the port as it existed prior to its reconstruction under Charles III, Duke of Bourbon.

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