LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

27.95 in. (71.00 cm.) (height) by 66.93 in. (170.00 cm.) (width)

Literature:

Inventario general de todos los trastos y vienes muebles pertenecientes a la Cassa del Exmo. Sr. Marques Duque de Medinazeli, mi señor, Ms. in the Archivio Ducal de Medinaceli, Seville, 1711, no. 180: Territorio de Pozuelo con las Islas no247… 2.200 rs.; V. Lleó Cañal, ‘The art collection of the ninth Duke of Medinaceli’, The Burlington Magazine, vol. CXXXI, no. 1031, February 1989, pp. 109-10, 115; L. Trezzani in Gaspare Vanvitelli e le origini del vedutismo, exhibition catalogue, Rome, Chiostro del Bramante, 16 October 2002 - 9 February 2003, and Venice, Museo Correr, 28 February - 18 May 2003, p. 45.

Provenance:

Commissioned by Don Luís Francisco de la Cerda Fernández de Córdova Folch de Cardona y Aragón, ninth Duke of Medinaceli (1660-1711), in around 1700; Thence by descent until acquired by a private collector in 2011.