Giovanni Battista Lusieri and the Panoramic Landscape

Expanding Horizons: Giovanni Battista Lusieri and the Panoramic Landscape
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Objects proposed for protection under Part Six of the Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007
(Protections of cultural objects on loan from outside the UK).
National Gallery of Art, 6th Street and Constitution Avenue, Washington DC, USA
Type of work: Drawing
Title: The Bay of Naples and Vesuvius from Mergellina
Date Created: 1782 / 1794
Maker: Giovanni Battista Lusieri
Maker dates: about 1755 - 1821
Nationality: Italian (Roman)
Dimensions: 62.80 x 93.80 cm
Materials: Watercolour on paper
Identifying not recorded
marks:
Place of not recorded
manufacture:
Giovanni Battista Lusieri, The Bay of Naples and Vesuvius from
Mergellina - Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington
Ownership In the collection of the 10th Earl of Elgin and 14th Earl of Kincardine (1881 – 1968).
1933 - 1945:
Provenance: The artist’s heirs; purchased by the 7th Earl of Elgin; by descent to the 11th Earl of Elgin and
the 15th Earl of Kincardine; 1986, their sale, London, Sotherby’s, 30 June, lot 110, purchased
by Ian Woodner, New York; 1990, by inheritance to his daughters, Andrea and Dian
Woodner, New York; 2006, National Gallery of Art, Washington, Woodner Collection, gift of
Andrea Woodner.
Exhibition
history:
1990
All’ombra del Vesuvio: Napoli nella veduta europea dal Quattrocento
all’Ottocento, Castel Sant’Elmo, Naples, 1990, 407 (reproduced p. 147).
1990
In the Shadow of Vesuvius: View of Naples from Baroque to Romanticism,
1631 – 1830, Accademia Italiana delle Arti e delle Arti Applicate, London 1990, as
Naples from Mergellina (reproduced p. 83 and cover).
1990
Master Drawings from the Woodner Collection, Metropolitan Museum of Art,
New York, 1990, no. 47.
1995
The Touch of the Artist: Master Drawings from the Woodner Collections,
National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1995 – 1996, no. 97
2006
Master Drawings from the Woodner Collections, National Gallery of Art,
Washington D C 2006 – 2007
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Publications: Spinosa, Nicola. Pittura napoletana del Settecento dal Rococo al Classicismo.
(Naples, 1987) no. 342, pl. 75, as Napoli da ponente.
Spinosa, Nicola and Leonardo Di Mauro. Vedute napoletane del Settecento.
(Naples, 1989) pp.161 – 162, no. 183, pl. 109, as Mergellina.
Seta, Cesare de. L’Italia del Grand Tour: Da Montaigne a Goethe. (Naples, 1992) p.
185 (reproduced), as Napoli da Mergellina.
The Touch of the Artist: Master Drawings from the Woodner Collections. Exh. Cat.
National Gallery of Art Washington 1995 – 1996 no 97
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The J. Paul Getty Museum, 1200 Getty Centre Drive, Suite 1000, Los Angeles 90040-1687, USA
Type of work: Drawing
Title: View of the Bay of Naples, Looking Southwest from the
Pizzofalcone towards Capo di Posilippo
Date Created: 1791
Maker: Giovanni Battista Lusieri
Maker dates: about 1755 - 1821
Nationality: Italian (Roman)
Dimensions: 101.80 x 271.90 (framed: 120.00 x 290.20 x 7.30 cm)
Materials: Watercolour, gouache, graphite, pen and ink and
Giovanni Battista Lusieri, View of the Bay of Naples, Looking Southwest
from the Pizzofalcone towards Capo di Posilippo - The J. Paul Getty
Museum, Los Angeles
Identifying Signed and dated lower centre edge “G.B. Lusier 1791”
marks:
Place of not recorded
manufacture:
Ownership In the collection of Stowe School, near Buckinghamshire
1933 - 1945:
Provenance: 1791, Commissioned from the artist, shipped to England by Sir William Hamilton (1730
– 1803); 1801, Hamilton Sale, Christies, London, March 28, lot 24, probably sold to
Richard Temple Nugent Brydges Chandos Grenville; by 1817, Richard Temple Nugent
Brydges Chandos Grenville, first duke of Birmingham and Chandos, English (1776 –
1839), probably acquired in the Hamilton sale; 1848, Richard Grenville, second duke
of Birmingham and Chandos (1797 – 1861), Stowe sale, Christie and Manson (on
premises), lot 160, September 13 to Richard Grenville; 1889, Richard Grenville, third
duke of Buckingham and Chandos (1823 – 1889) by inheritance to his daughter, Mary
Temple Gore Langdon (1852 – 1944); 1921, Mary Temple Gore Langdon, Stowe sale,
Jackson Stops, lot 1562, probably to H. Shaw; 1922, H. Shaw, Stowe sale, Jackson
Stops, lot 204, October 13, to Allied Schools (as part of the fixtures of Stowe); until
1984, Stowe School, near Buckinghamshire; 1985, Artemis Fines Arts Ltd., London,
England.
Exhibition
history:
All’Ombra del Vesuvio: Napoli Nella Veduta Europa / In the Shadow of Vesuvius:
Naples in the European View (May 11 to July 29, 1990), Museo e Gallerie Nazionali di
Capoimonte, Naples. Goethe and the Visual Arts, (May 20 to August 7 1994), Schrin
Kunsthalle, Frankfurt. Vases and Volcanoes: Sir William Hamilton, Collector and
Connoisseur (March 12 to July 14 1996), The British Museum, London. Devises of
Wonder: From the World in a Box to Images on a Screen (November 13 2001 to
February 3 2002), The J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center, Los Angeles.
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Publications: Seely, J. Stowe, A Description of the House and Gardens. (Buckingham:1817) p.58.
Seely, J. Stowe, A Description of the House and Gardens. (Buckingham:1827) p. 70,
nos. 303,304.
Chandler, R., and J. Seely. Stowe, A Description of the House and Gardens.
(Buckingham: 1832) p. 74, nos. 303,304.
Calkin and Budd. Stowe, A Description of the House and Gardens. (London: 1838) p.
57, nos. 182, 184.
Harrison, J. (appraiser). Inventory of the Household Funiture, Etc. at Stowe House
taken by order of His Grace the Duke of Buckingham and Chandos, Jan. & Feb.
1839. (Huntington Library, Stowe Mss. ST 274: 1839) f. 17.
Forster, Henry Ramsey. The Stowe Catalogue priced and annotated. (London:1848)
p. 165, np.106.
“Acquisitions/1985.” The J. Paul Getty Museum Journal 14 (1986), p. 214, no. 115.
Spinosa, Nicola. Pittura napoletana del Settecento dal Rococo al Classicismo.
(Naples: 1987) vol. 2, p. 166, no. 342, fig.447.
Williams, Charles I.M. “Lusieri’s Masterpiece?” Burlington Magazine 129 (July 1987)
pp. 457 – 459.
Hawcroft, Francis W. Travels in Italy 1776 – 1783 Based on the Memoirs of Thomas
Jones, exh. Cat. (Manchester: 1988) p. 86, under no. 93.
Spinosa, Nicola, and Leonardo Di Mauro. Vedute napoletane del Settecento (Naples:
Electa, 1989), pp.28, 128 – 129 (tav. 110), 203, no. 184 (details in colour on dust
jacket and slip case).
Bean, Jacob, and William Griswold. 18th Century Italian Drawings in the Metropolitan
Museum of Art. (New York: 1990) p. 142, under no. 29.
Knight, Carlo. “Lusieri di Hamilton.”Napoli Nobilissima, Rivista di Arti Figurative,
Architettura, Archeologia e Urbanistica XXXI, fasc. III- IV (May – August 1992) pp. 81
– 6.
Gage, John. “Lusieri, Hamilton and the Palazzo Sessa.” Burlington Magazine,
vol.135. (November 1993) pp. 765 – 766.
Knight, “Hamilton’s Lusieris.” Burlington Magazine, 135. (August 1993) pp. 536 –
538.
Frederickson, Burton, et al. Masterpieces of the J. Paul Getty Museum: Paintings
(Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 1997), p. 39, no. 20, ill., entry by Dawson Carr.
Jaffe, David. Summery Catalogue of European Paintings in the J. Paul Getty
Museum (Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum. 1997), p. 77, ill.
Miller, Norbet. Der Wanderer. Goethe in Italien (Munich and Vienna: Carl Hanser,
2002), pp. 210, 304 – 5, 712, ill.
Flick, Gert – Rudolf. Missing Masterpieces: Lost Works of Art, 1450 – 1900 (London:
The British Art Journal, with Merrell, 2003), pp. 173-177.
Spirito, Fabrizia. Lusieri, Naples: Electa, 2003 no 30, p. 127, 165, colour illus., pp.
70-71.
D’Hancarville, Pierre- Francois Hugues. The Complete Collection of Antiquities from
the Cabinet of Sir William Hamilton (Cologne, 2004) pp. 16-17, illus.
Millon, Henry A., ed. Circa1700: Architecture in Europe and the Americas (New
Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2005), pp. 16-17, 33.
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Type of work: Drawing
Title: An Extensive View of Rome from Orti della Pineta
Sacchetti
Date Created: 1780
Maker: Giovanni Battista Lusieri
Maker dates: about 1755 - 1821
Nationality: Italian (Roman)
Dimensions: 30.20 x 42.90 cm
Materials: Black lead and black chalk on paper
Identifying not recorded
marks:
Place of not recorded
manufacture:
Ownership Uknown collection
1933 - 1945:
Giovanni Battista Lusieri, An Extensive View of Rome from Orti della Pineta
Sacchetti - The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
Provenance: Unknown collection (sold, Christie’s New York, 24th January 2001, lot 82, to the J. Paul Getty
Museum)
Source: Christie’s, sale catalogue, January, 24, 2001, lot 82- no provenance given.
Exhibition
history:
Rome on the Grand Tour (January 8 to August 11, 2002) The J. Paul Getty Museum at
the Getty Center (Los Angeles).
Publications: not recorded
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