Gaspar van Wittel, called Vanvitelli (1652/3-1736)

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Gaspar van Wittel, called Vanvitelli (1652/3-1736)

The Falls at Tivoli (recto); A reclining peasant Girl (verso)

red chalk, pen and brown ink, grey and blue wash heightened with white (recto), black chalk (verso) on grey-blue paper watermark encircled anchor, the upper right corner made-up

379 x 263mm.

Provenance

B. Cavaceppi.
V. Pacetti.
P. Fatio (his mark, not in Lugt); N. Rauch, Geneva, 13 June 1960, lot 140.
With Agnews, The Italian Scene, Drawings by Vanvitelli, London, 1961, no. 5.
Stephen Richard Currier and Audrey Bruce Currier; Christie's, 3 April 1984, lot 60, illustrated (£4,800).

Literature

G. Briganti, Gaspar van Wittel e l'origine della veduta settecentesca, Rome, 1966, p. 278, no. 38d.

Exhibited

Toronto, Art Gallery of Ontario and elsewhere, Italian Drawings from the Collection of Duke Roberto Ferretti, 1985-86, no. 54, illustrated.

Lot Essay

Gaspar Van Wittel painted two oval views of Tivoli in 1691, now in the Rospigliosi collection in Rome. Further drawings of Tivoli are illustrated in W. Vitzthum, Gaspar Van Wittel, exhib. cat., Palazzo De Vio, Gaeta, 1980, no. 47-7. The figure on the verso is comparable with that on a drawing in the Palazzo Reale, Vitzthum, op. cit., no. 16, illustrated.

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