LOT DETAILS

Materials:

Pen and brown ink over black chalk, squared for transfer in red chalk

Measurements:

14.49 in. (36.80 cm.) (height) by 19.49 in. (49.50 cm.) (width)

Markings:

bears inscriptions in black chalk, verso: Isola Bella / Villa Borromeo / Vue sud du lac and bears numbering in red chalk: No 10

Exhibited:

London, Agnew's,. The Italian Scene: Drawings by Vanvitelli , 1961, no. 7;. Rome, Galleria Gasparrini,. Vanvitelli ed altri vedutisti , 1966, no. 32

Literature:

G. Briganti,. Gaspar van Wittel e l'origine della veduta settecentesca , Rome 1966, p. 276, no. 30d, reproduced;. A. Zwollo,. Hollandse een Vlaamse veduteschilders te Rome , 1675-1725, Assen 1973, p. 122, no. 243, reproduced, fig. 209;. G. Briganti, edition by L. Laureati and L. Trezzani, . Gaspar van Wittel, Milan 1996 p. 335, no. D138, reproduced p. 336;. . Gaspare Vanvitelli e l'origine del Vedutismo , exhib.cat., Rome, Chiostro del Bramante, 2002-3, p. 200, under no. 65

Provenance:

Bartolomeo Cavaceppi, Rome,. acquired by Vincenzo Pacetti,. circa 1801;. Paul Fatio (L.3701),. his sale, Geneva, Rauch 13-15 June 1960, lot 399,. where acquired by Thos. Agnew and Sons Ltd, London by 1961,. from whom acquired together with lot 404 (from the Rauch sale) by Professor S.F.C Milsom, Oxford,. his Estate sale, Cambridge, England, Cheffins, 16 June 2016, lot 676. Private Collection, UK