View of Florence from the Basilico, San Miniato al Monte, Monte Cruce

细节

Edward Lear (1812-1888)
View of Florence from the Basilico, San Miniato al Monte, Monte Cruce
signed and dated 'E. Lear/1838' (lower right)
pencil and watercolour with gum arabic
7 5/8 x 11 7/8 in (19.3 x 30.2 cm.)

来源

with Davis Galleries, New York, where purchased for the present collection.

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拍品专文

The present drawing dates from Lear's first trip to Europe in 1837. He travelled initially with his sister Ann, who stayed with him until he reached Brussels. Then he passed into Luxembourg. At the beginning of September he was in Switzerland and later that month he crossed over the border into Italy.

On his arrival in Florence he was overwhelmed by the artistic sites, he wrote to Ann: '...I cannot tell you about the galleries- the pictures- the statues- the churches- the tombs of Michael Angelo- Dante- etc. etc... It is all a hurly-burly of beauty and wonder.' (V. Noakes, The Painter Edward Lear, London, 1991, p. 44.)