Napoli 1824 – Franz Ludwig Catel (German, 1778-1856)
Franz Ludwig Catel (German, 1778-1856)
Napoli 1824
A View of Naples through a Window, 1824. Franz Ludwig Catel (German, 1778-1856). Oil on paper, mounted on canvas; framed: 59.5 x 46 x 5.5 cm (23 7/16 x 18 1/8 x 2 3/16 in.); unframed: 46.8 x 33.5 cm (18 7/16 x 13 3/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund 1994.198. Catel lived most of his life in Rome, where he usually painted landscapes and peasant scenes that were very popular with tourists. He often traveled through Italy, and in 1824, he visited Naples with the famous German neoclassical architect Karl Friedrich Schinkel (1781–1841). Schinkel noted in his diary that the two friends had rented an apartment in the “Albergo alla Grand Europa.” It must have been from that apartment that Catel painted this captivating view of a sun- drenched afternoon in Naples. We will never know whether Mount Vesuvius actually released a smoke plume when this view was painted, but it certainly adds drama to the composition.
Fonte
https://archive.org/details/clevelandart-1994.198-a-view-of-naples-thr
sarebbe interessante sapere se nel 1824 il Vesuvio fumava o no.E chi meglio di voi può rispondere Vesuvio web.
Bella immagine vivida. Ammiro il dipinto di delicate tende.
Franz Ludwig Catel dipinse diverse immagini della vista del Vesuvio, ad esempio:
http://www.wikigallery.org/paintings/269501-270000/269936/painting1.jpg
Grazie e saluti
Jana