Leo von Klenze

Art market, Munich;

Where acquired by Professor Dr. h.c. Otto Friedrich Bollnow, Tübingen, circa 1948;

Private collection, Germany;

Anonymous sale, Nagel, 5 December 2007, lot 601;

Where acquired by the present owner.

Munich, Kunstverein, 1825, no. 160.

Halbjahrs-Bericht über den Bestand und das Wirken des Kunstvereins in München für das Jahr 1825, exhibition catalogue, Munich 1825, p. 19, cat. no. 160;

N. Lieb and F. Hufnagl, Leo von Klenze, Gemälde und Zeichnungen, Munich 1979, p. 77, cat. no. G4, reproduced.

Leo von Klenze, the most important early-19th-century German proponent of Greek Revival architecture, likely produced this charming view of the Vomero Hill in Naples between 1823 and 1825, during his first trip to Italy. Built by King Ferdinand I, King of the Kingdom of Two Sicilies, as a palatial home for himself and his wife Lucia Migliaccio, the Duchess of Floridia, the Villa Lucia crowns the sweeping panorama. As court architect and eventually director of building under King Ludwig I of Bavaria, Klenze designed some of Munich's most important civic structures, including the Glyptothek, the city's museum for antique sculpture, and Alte Pinakothek.