View of the Caelian Hill, Rome, with the church of Santi Giovanni e Paolo, seen from the Aventine, Rome

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CLAUDE-JOSEPH VERNET (AVIGNON 1714-1789 PARIS)
View of the Caelian Hill, Rome, with the church of Santi Giovanni e Paolo, seen from the Aventine, Rome
black chalk, pen and black ink, brown and grey wash, watermark crowned coat of arms with fleur-de-lys and 'ICV'
11 7/8 x 17 ¼ in. (30.1 x 44 cm.)

Provenance

From an album probably compiled in Vienna in the early 19th Century.
Antoine-Augustin Renouard, Paris, 20 November 1854, part of lot 628 (to Pottier, antiquarian bookseller).
Anonymous sale; Blache, Versailles, 13 March 1966, probably lot 169 (as 'Vue de Sainte-Lucie, prise des hauteurs').
with Knoedler Gallery, New York, where acquired by the Ford Foundation in November 1966.

Literature

P. Conisbee, Claude-Joseph Vernet 1714-1789, exhib. cat., Kenwood, The Fondation The Iveagh Bequest, 1976-77, Fig. 4.

Lot Essay

The present drawing was part of an album of Italian views by Vernet, thought to have been assembled in Vienna in the early 19th century, and dismembered at auction in Versailles on 13 March 1966. Probably from the same source is a group of Italian landscape drawings at the Albertina, Vienna, given to that institution by Emperor Ferdinand I of Austria.

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