Mediterranean coastal landscape, Flemish painter active in Italy in the eighteenth century

Flemish painter active in Italy in the eighteenth century
Mediterranean coastal landscape with architecture and figures
Oil on canvas (69 x 88 cm., framed 80 x 100 cm.)

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The suggestive view proposed depicts a coastal view with a bay and the ruins of an ancient building, probably a monastery or a church, and in the background another building with a garden surrounded by high walls close to the shore.
The type of landscape, typical of the southern Italian environment, and the intimate atmosphere that welcomes the scene, attribute the authorship of the work to a landscape painter active in the eighteenth century, presumably in Italy in this period, with immediate references to the Dutch school , and in particular to the production of Jacob de Heusch and above all of Gaspar van Wittel, considered the forefather of Italian landscape painting.
In fact, one can glimpse, in the rendering of the architectural details, in the purity with which the buildings have been reproduced, as well as in the atmosphere that encloses the entire landscape, a marked correspondence to the so-called "Vanvitellian realism": one can in fact note a comparison with a certain series of views that the Dutch dedicated especially to Rome.
In the foreground we then find the genre scenes that the artist loved to include in his refined views: the fishermen, a pier with a moored boat and two wet men who are drying themselves serve to humanize a view with an almost metaphysical atmosphere.
Our author must certainly have been fascinated by Van Wittel's creations and tried to take up the compositional inspiration in this canvas; As an example we can mention ''The Tiber at Castel Sant'Angelo, seen from the south”, by Van Wittel Gaspar (Rome, Istituto Bancario Italiano Collection), dating back to around 1715, for the light output and the definition of the agglomeration of the buildings , in addition to the figures in the foreground intent on bathing.

The painting is completed with a pleasant wooden frame.

The painting is in excellent condition and is sold complete with a certificate of authenticity in accordance with the law.

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