DUTCH SCHOOL 17thC - ANIMATED ITALIAN LANDSCAPE ATTR. VAN WITTEL - INK DRAWING
Item History & Price
For sale is this refined Dutch landscape drawing, a find near Parma (Italy).
The drawing, executed in pen, ink and brown wash on laid paper, depicts an animated Italian landscape, showing travellers on a road to a fortified town.
Authorship : the drawing is from the Dutch School, by Caspar van Wittel (Gaspare Vanvitelli). The drawing is very typical for this artist.
CASPAR VAN WITTEL (Amersfoort 1652 or 1653 - Rome 1736) : Also known by his Italian name Gaspare Vanvitell...i. Dutch painter, draughtsman, active mainly in Italy. He was trained in his hometownof Amersfoort, Netherlands in the workshop of the painter Matthias Withoos.
Hefollowed in his master’s footsteps when he moved to Rome around 1675, where hebecame known as Vanvitelli. He was primarily a painter of topographical views("vedute") and began painting these views in the 1680s. By the 1690s hadestablished a clear style, distinctive for its realism and subject matter. While his predecessors in this genre had focused mainly on the ruins, ancientmonuments and religious cites around Rome, van Wittel sought to chronicle thenewer parts of the city, and so was a pioneer in the visual documentation of amodern Rome.Although van Wittel’s initial training was as a painter, and he spent most ofhis career producing vedute of Rome, he was also an accomplished draughtsman. When he first arrived in Rome, he worked for the hydraulic engineer Cornelis Meyer, who was working on projects involving roads, fountains andwaterways throughout the city. Van Wittel’s first work in Rome consisted offifty drawings, which illustrated plans by Meyer to restore navigability to astretch of the Tiber River. It was also during this period that van Wittel hadthe opportunity to frequent the various printing studios throughout Rome, inwhich he witnessed the printing of tourist guides to the city. This sparkedhis interest in views of the modern city of Rome.
Gaspar van Wittel traveled extensively throughout Italy during his lifetime, which resulted in a large number of paintings of cities throughout thepeninsula. After a short stay in Naples, working fo the Sapnish Viceroy, he returned toRome. Van Wittel remained in Rome for the restof his life, being elected into the Accademis de San Luca in 1711.
Period : ca. 1680-1690.
Size : 19, 5x27, 2cm.
Condition : Fairly good. Some scattered dirt throughout. Laid down on a paper support (this is causing traces of wrinkling). Unframed.
Shipping : flat shippingrate 17$. Shipped as International Registered Mail (with trackingn°). Combined shipping available.
The drawing, executed in pen, ink and brown wash on laid paper, depicts an animated Italian landscape, showing travellers on a road to a fortified town.
Authorship : the drawing is from the Dutch School, by Caspar van Wittel (Gaspare Vanvitelli). The drawing is very typical for this artist.
CASPAR VAN WITTEL (Amersfoort 1652 or 1653 - Rome 1736) : Also known by his Italian name Gaspare Vanvitell...i. Dutch painter, draughtsman, active mainly in Italy. He was trained in his hometownof Amersfoort, Netherlands in the workshop of the painter Matthias Withoos.
Hefollowed in his master’s footsteps when he moved to Rome around 1675, where hebecame known as Vanvitelli. He was primarily a painter of topographical views("vedute") and began painting these views in the 1680s. By the 1690s hadestablished a clear style, distinctive for its realism and subject matter. While his predecessors in this genre had focused mainly on the ruins, ancientmonuments and religious cites around Rome, van Wittel sought to chronicle thenewer parts of the city, and so was a pioneer in the visual documentation of amodern Rome.Although van Wittel’s initial training was as a painter, and he spent most ofhis career producing vedute of Rome, he was also an accomplished draughtsman. When he first arrived in Rome, he worked for the hydraulic engineer Cornelis Meyer, who was working on projects involving roads, fountains andwaterways throughout the city. Van Wittel’s first work in Rome consisted offifty drawings, which illustrated plans by Meyer to restore navigability to astretch of the Tiber River. It was also during this period that van Wittel hadthe opportunity to frequent the various printing studios throughout Rome, inwhich he witnessed the printing of tourist guides to the city. This sparkedhis interest in views of the modern city of Rome.
Gaspar van Wittel traveled extensively throughout Italy during his lifetime, which resulted in a large number of paintings of cities throughout thepeninsula. After a short stay in Naples, working fo the Sapnish Viceroy, he returned toRome. Van Wittel remained in Rome for the restof his life, being elected into the Accademis de San Luca in 1711.
Period : ca. 1680-1690.
Size : 19, 5x27, 2cm.
Condition : Fairly good. Some scattered dirt throughout. Laid down on a paper support (this is causing traces of wrinkling). Unframed.
Shipping : flat shippingrate 17$. Shipped as International Registered Mail (with trackingn°). Combined shipping available.
