A portico leading to a garden with an elegant couple promenading

細節

Viviano Codazzi (Bergamo c. 1604-1670 Rome)
A portico leading to a garden with an elegant couple promenading
oil on canvas
29½ x 24 in. (75 x 61 cm.)

來源

(Probably) Sir Robert Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford (1676-1745), Houghton Hall, Norfolk, and by inheritance at Houghton, in the collection of the Earls of Orford and the Marquesses of Cholmondeley, until sold, Christie's, London, 8 December 1994, lot 143 (£19,000 to the present owner).

出版

(Probably) Horace Walpole, Aedes Walpolianae: or, a Description of the Collection of Pictures at Houghton-Hall in Norfolk, the Seat of the Right Honourable Sir Robert Walpole, Earl of Orford, London 1747, p. 46 (one of 'Two Pieces of Ruins, by Viviano' hung over the doors in the Common Parlour).

注意事項

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拍品專文

We are grateful to Dr. David R. Marshall for confirming the attribution on the basis of a transparency. Dr. Marshall dates the present picture to the 1660s and suggests that the figures and the dog may be by the same hand as those in a capriccio of a similar size formerly in the Ortolani Collection, Rome (D.R. Marshall, Viviano and Niccolò Codazzi and the Baroque Architectural Fantasy, Milan and Rome, 1993, p. 332, no. VC 196, illustrated); the pendant to that picture (ibid., p. 331, no. VC 195, illustrated) is dated 1668.