Flemish painter active in Italy in the eighteenth century
Mediterranean coastal landscape with architecture and figures
Oil on canvas (69 x 88 cm, framed 80 x 100 cm)
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The charming view depicts a coastal area with a bay and the ruins of an ancient building, probably a monastery or a church, and in the background another building with a garden surrounded by high walls close to the shore.
The kind of landscape, typical of the southern Italian environment, and the intimate atmosphere welcomes the scene, attributes the authorship of the work to a landscape painter active in the eighteenth century, presumably in Italy at this time, with immediate references to the Dutch school, and in particular to the production of Jacob de Heusch and especially Gaspar van Wittel, considered the founder of Italian landscape painting.
In fact, one can see, in the rendering of the architectural details, in the purity with which the buildings have been weighed, as well as the atmosphere that encompasses the entire landscape, a marked correspondence to the so-called "Vanvitellian verismo": one can in fact 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 insert 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 the creations of Van Wittel and tried in this canvas to take up the compositional cue; By way of example we can mention ''The Tiber at Castel Sant'Angelo, seen from the south'', by Van Wittel Gaspar (Rome, Collezione Istituto Bancario Italiano), dating back to around 1715, for the luminous rendering and the definition of the buildings, as well as the figures in the foreground intent on bathing.
The painting is completed by a pleasant wooden frame.
The painting is in excellent condition and is sold complete with a certificate of authenticity in accordance with the law.
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