Expanding Horizons: Giovanni Battista Lusieri and the Panoramic Landscape 2012-06-30 to 2012-10-28 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: Title: Drawing The Bay of Naples and Vesuvius from Mergellina Date Created: Maker: Maker dates: Nationality: Dimensions: Materials: Identifying marks: Place of manufacture: Ownership 1933-1945: 1782 / 1794 Giovanni Battista Lusieri about 1755-1821 Italian (Roman) 62.80 x 93.80 cm Watercolour on paper Giovanni Battista Lusieri, The Bay of Naples and Vesuvius from Mergellina - Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington In the collection of the 10th Earl of Elgin and 14th Earl of Kincardine (1881 1968). 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 Page 1 of 6
Page 2 of 6 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
Page 3 of 6 The J. Paul Getty Museum, 1200 Getty Centre Drive, Suite 1000, Los Angeles 90040-1687, USA Type of work: Title: Drawing Date Created: 1791 View of the Bay of Naples, Looking Southwest from the Pizzofalcone towards Capo di Posilippo 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 Identifying marks: Signed and dated lower centre edge G.B. Lusier 1791 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 Place of manufacture: Ownership 1933-1945: In the collection of Stowe School, near Buckinghamshire 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.
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. Page 4 of 6
Page 5 of 6 Type of work: Title: Drawing An Extensive View of Rome from Orti della Pineta Sacchetti Date Created: Maker: Maker dates: Nationality: Dimensions: Materials: Identifying marks: Place of manufacture: Ownership 1933-1945: 1780 Giovanni Battista Lusieri about 1755-1821 Italian (Roman) 30.20 x 42.90 cm Black lead and black chalk on paper Uknown collection Giovanni Battista Lusieri, An Extensive View of Rome from Orti della Pineta Sacchetti - The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles Provenance: Exhibition history: Publications: 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. Rome on the Grand Tour (January 8 to August 11, 2002) The J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center (Los Angeles).
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