Mediterranean coastal landscape, Flemish painter active in Italy in the 18th century

Flemish painter active in Italy in the 18th century Mediterranean coastal landscape with architecture and figures Oil on canvas (69 x 88 cm., in frame 80 x 100 cm.) In-depth details of this painting directly on our personal website at the following - link - The suggestive view depicted shows a coastal stretch with a bay and the ruins of an ancient building, probably a monastery or a church, and in the background another construction with a garden surrounded by high walls near the shore. The type of landscape, typical of the Southern Italian environment, and the intimate atmosphere that welcomes the scene, attribute the paternity of the work to a vedutist active in the 18th century, presumably in Italy during this period, with immediate references to the Dutch school, and in particular to the production of Jacob de Heusch and especially Gaspar van Wittel, considered the progenitor of Italian vedutism. Indeed, in the rendering of the architectural details, in the purity with which the buildings have been reproduced, as well as in the atmosphere that envelops the entire landscape, a marked correspondence to the so-called “Vanvitellian verism” can be seen: one can indeed note a comparison with a certain series of views that the Dutchman dedicated especially to Rome. In the foreground, we find the genre scenes that the artist loved to include in his refined views: fishermen, a pier with a moored boat, and two bathers drying themselves serve to humanize a view with an almost metaphysical atmosphere. Our author must certainly have been fascinated by Van Wittel's achievements and has sought in this canvas to take up the compositional inspiration; for example, we can mention 'The Tiber at Castel Sant'Angelo, seen from the south' by Van Wittel Gaspar (Rome, Collezione Istituto Bancario Italiano), dating from around 1715, for its luminous rendering and the definition of the buildings' aggregation, as well as the foreground figures intent on bathing. The painting is completed by a pleasant wooden frame. The painting is in excellent condition and is sold with a certificate of authenticity in accordance with the law. Follow us also on : https://www.instagram.com/galleriacastelbarco/?hl=it https://www.facebook.com/galleriacastelbarco/