Lot 109
  • 109

Franz Richard Unterberger

Estimate
40,000 - 60,000 USD
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Description

  • Franz Richard Unterberger
  • A Market in Naples 
  • signed FR Unterberger (lower right)
  • oil on canvas
  • 36 by 56 in.
  • 91.4 by 142.2 cm

Provenance

Private Collection, New York
Sale: Sotheby's, New York, October 23, 2007, lot 24, illustrated
Acquired at the above sale

Condition

Lined. The colors remain vibrant and the impasto remains fresh. There is a small web of fine craquelure in the upper left quadrant. Under UV: there are a few scattered dots of retouching in the sky; a horizontal line of dashes of retouching in the sky above the lagoon; and broadly brushed areas of retouching throughout.
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Catalogue Note

Son of an art dealer, Franz-Richard Unterberger studied painting in Munich in the 1850s, and then moved to Dusseldorf in the 1860s where he focused on mountain landscapes. He is perhaps best-known for his vedute of Venice, Amalfi and Naples, of which this is a particularly impressive example.