ID 818801
Lot 146 | ANTONIO JOLI (MODENA C. 1700-1777 NAPLES)
Estimate value
$ 400 000 – 600 000
Naples, Piazza Trieste e Trento with a fair viewed from a balcony of the Palazzo Reale
oil on canvas
30 x 50 1/4 in. (76 x 127.6 cm.)
Provenance
Ferdinand IV di Borbone (1751-1825), King of Naples (according a label on the reverse), and by descent to his second wife,
Lucia Migliaccio (1770-1826), Duchessa di Floridia (according a label on the reverse), and by whom gifted to,
'Una dama Napolitana' (A Neapolitan Lady) (according to a label on the reverse), and by whom sold to the following,
(Possibly) Archibald Philip Primrose (1874-1929), 5th Earl of Rosebery, 1st Earl of Midlothian, for the Villa Rosebery at Posillipo, and by descent to,
Albert Edward Harry Meyer Archibald Primrose (1882-1974), 6th Earl of Rosebery, 2nd Earl of Midlothian, Mentmore; (†) his sale, Sotheby's, on the premises, 25 May 1977, lot 2444, as 'Gaspar van Wittel.'
Santillo collection, Washington.
[The Property of a Gentleman]; Sotheby's, London, 9 December 1992, lot 78,
Acquired by Ann and Gordon Getty from the above.
Literature
F. Mancini, 'Il 'trucco' urbano: apparati e scenografie tra finzione e realtà,' Civiltà del '700 a Napoli 1734-1799, II, exhibition catalogue, 1979-1980, p. 303.
N. Spinosa, Pittura Napoletana del Settecento dal Rococo al Classicismo, Naples, 1987, pp. 126, 158-159, no. 283, fig. 61.
N. Spinosa and I. Di Manro, Vedute Napoletane del Settecento, Naples, 1989, p. 193, no. 73, fig. 42.
I. Salerno, I Pittori di Vedute in Italia, 1580-1830, Rome, 1991, p. 254, no. 51.
R. Middione, Antonio Joli, Soncino, 1995, p. 104, no. 32, illustrated.
M. Manzelli, Antonio Joli: opere pittorica, Venice, 1999, p. 80, no. 39, fig. 30.
R. Toledano, Antonio Joli: Modena 1700-1777 Napoli, Turin, 2006, pp. 356-357, no. N.XXII, illustrated.
Exhibited
Naples, Castel Sant 'Elmos, All' Ombra del Vesuvio; Napoli nella Venduta Europea dal Quattrocento all' Ottocento, 12 May-29 July 1990, n.n. (entry by M. Utili).
| Artist: | Antonio Jolie (1700 - 1777) |
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| Applied technique: | Oil on canvas |
| Genre: | Cityscape |
| Place of origin: | Italy, Europe |
| Auction house category: | Paintings |
| Artist: | Antonio Jolie (1700 - 1777) |
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| Applied technique: | Oil on canvas |
| Genre: | Cityscape |
| Place of origin: | Italy, Europe |
| Auction house category: | Paintings |
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