Gaspar van Wittel, called Vanvitelli (1653-1736)

Collection of the late PROFESSOR DOCTOR RICHARD KRAUTHEIMER AND DOCTOR TRUDE KRAUTHEIMER-HESS

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Gaspar van Wittel, called Vanvitelli (1653-1736)

An extensive wooded Landscape with a Path (recto); Studies of Hands, Draperies, and a Woman seen from behind (verso)

black chalk, pen and brown ink, grey wash (recto), pen and brown ink, black and white chalk (verso), on blue paperwatermark praying man in a shield

419 x 550mm.

Provenance

B. Cavaceppi.
V. Paccetti.
P. Fatio (his mark, not in Lugt); Rauch, Geneva, 13 June 1960.
With Agnews, The Italian Scene, Drawings by Vanvitelli, London, 1961.

Lot Essay

The present drawing is comparable in technique and format with a drawing of the Gulf of Pozzuoli in the Ferrera Dentice collection, W. Vitzthum, Gaspar van Wittel, exhib. cat., Palazzo de Vio, Gaeta, 1980, no. 66, illustrated.

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