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GASPAR VAN WITTEL CALLED VANVITELLI (AMERSFOORT 1652-1736 ROME)

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31.01.2024 10:00UTC -04:00
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Lot 76 | GASPAR VAN WITTEL CALLED VANVITELLI (AMERSFOORT 1652-1736 ROME)
GASPAR VAN WITTEL CALLED VANVITELLI (AMERSFOORT 1652-1736 ROME)

Naples, a view of the Seiano Grotto in Posillipo with the Tomb of Virgil

signed and dated 'NAPOLI 1701 / GAASPERO V.W.' (lower right, on the wall)

oil on canvas

28 ½ x 49 in. (72.4 x 124.5 cm)





Provenance

Commissioned by Don Luis Francisco de la Cerda y Aragón (1660-1711), 9th Duke of Medinaceli, Naples, circa 1700,

Dowager Duchess of Medinaceli (c. 1660-1732), Madrid, and by descent to,

Dowager Duchess of Uceda, Madrid, and by descent to,

Don José María Martorell Téllez-Girón Fernández de Córdoba (1903-1960), Madrid, Duke of Plasencia (deposited by the ‘Junta Delegada de Incautación, Protección y Salvamento del Tesoro Artístico’ at the Museo del Prado for the duration of the Spanish Civil War until returned to the family on 30 April 1940, inv. no. 22410), and by descent until,

[The Property of a Lady]; Sotheby's, London, 3 December 1997, lot 47, where acquired by the present owner.



Literature

V. Lleó Carral, 'Art collection of the ninth Duke of Medinaceli', The Burlington Magazine, CXXXI, 1989, p. 115, no. 207 (mentioned in his posthumous inventory of 1711, as 'Gruta de Pozilio (sic) no. 221...1.200rs').

L. Laureati and L. Trezzani, Gaspare Vanvitelli e le origini del vedutismo, exhibition catalogue, Rome, 2002, pp. 45, 69, 214 and 216.
Artist:Caspar van Wittel (Vanvitelli, 1653 - 1736)
Applied technique:Oil on canvas
Art style:Old Masters
Place of origin:Western Europe, The Netherlands
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