LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

29.53 in. (75.00 cm.) (height) by 52.28 in. (132.80 cm.) (width)

Literature:

G. Briganti, 'Chiarimenti sul Vanvitelli,' in. La Critica d'Arte , XXIV, 1940, p. 133;. G. Briganti, Gaspar van Wittel e l'origine della veduta settecentesca , Rome 1966, p. 185, cat. no. 45, reproduced; . G. Briganti, in Gaspar van Wittel , L. Laureati and L. Trezzani (eds), Milan 1996, p. 163, cat. no. 85, reproduced p. 164, fig. 85; . L. Trezzani, 'Gaspare Vanvitelli, il pittore di Roma moderna,' in F. Benzi et al., Gaspare Vanvitelli e le origini del vedutismo , exhibition catalogue, Rome 2002, p. 35, reproduced; Christie's Review of the Season 1993 , pp. 24 and 25, reproduced in colour

Provenance:

E. H. Slater, 158 Marsland Road, Sale, near Manchester;. Anonymous sale, London, Christie's, 20 July 1934, lot 56 (as Marieschi), for 10 guineas, to Agnew; . With Thos. Agnew and Sons, Ltd., London, from 1934-45; . From whom acquired by Francis Wells in 1945; . By whom bequeathed to a private collector; . By whom anonymously sold ('Property of a Gentleman of Title'), London, Christie's, 9 July 1993, lot 93, reproduced on the front cover (as Vanvitelli); . Where acquired by the present collector