ATTRIBUTED TO PIETRO CAPELLI | A PAIR OF CAPRICCIO SCENES WITH TEMPLE RUINS AND FIGURES SWIMMING, DRINKING FROM A FOUNTAIN, AND SOCIALIZING

Pietro Capelli trained under Francesco Solimena and worked in his native Naples in the early 18th century. Mainly a painter of quadrature, he also painted landscapes. Capriccio scenes such as these, which combined architecture with landscape and genre figures, often required artists to collaborate according to their specialties, but the figures in this pair of scenes appear to have been completed by the same hand as the architectural ruins.