Details
Gaspar van Wittel, called Vanvitelli (Amersfoort 1652/3-1736 Rome)
View of Isola Bella on Lake Maggiore (recto); Details of the same view, with terraced gardens and a mountain range (verso)
with inscription 'Lago Maggiore - Isola Bella details' (verso)
pen and brown ink, squared for transfer in black chalk, on two joined sheets
14½ x 38¼ in. (37 x 97 cm.)
Provenance
Bartolomeo Cavaceppi.
Acquired by Vincenzo Pacetti circa 1801.
P. Fatio; his sale, Rauch, Geneva, 13-15 June 1960, lot 404.
with Agnew's, London, The Italian Scene: Drawings by Vanvitelli, 1961, no. 3.
S.F.C. Mieson, Oxford.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 2 July 1996, lot 152.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 6 July 2005, lot 149, where acquired by the present owner.
Literature
G. Briganti, Gaspar van Wittel e l'origine della veduta settecentesca, Rome, 1966, no. 36d (recto and verso), illustrated.
A. Zwollo, Hollandse een Vlaamse veduteschilders te Rome 1675-1725, Assen, 1973, p. 168, fig. 210.
W. Vitzthum, Gaspar van Wittel, exhib. cat., Gaeta, Palazzo de Vio, 1980, under no. 63.
G. Briganti, Gaspar van Wittel, Milan, 1996, p. 337, no. D143, illustrated p. 339 (recto and verso).
Gaspare Vanvitelli e l'origine del Vedutismo, exhib. cat., Rome, Chiostro del Bramante, 2002-3, p. 200, under no. 65.
Exhibited
Rome, Galleria Gasparrini, Vanvitelli ed altri vedutisti, 1966, no. 32.
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