ALEXANDRE-HYACINTHE DUNOUY | VIEW OF STABIAE, NEAR CASTELLAMMARE

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May 29, 06:32 PM GMT

Estimate

4,000 - 6,000 USD

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Property of a Lady

ALEXANDRE-HYACINTHE DUNOUY

Paris 1757-1841 Lyon

VIEW OF STABIAE, NEAR CASTELLAMMARE

inscribed on the backing paper of the canvas: Donnée par …. / Pline l’ancien mourut près / de cette ville en l’an 79 le premier / Novembre, victime de son zèle pour / La science

oil on paper, mounted on canvas

canvas: 8½ by 6⅜ in.; 21.6 by 16.2 cm.

framed: 12¼ by 9⅞ in.; 31.1 by 25.1 cm.

Anonymous sale, Paris, Claude Boisgirard, 17 June 1994, lot 37 (as Attributed to Alexandre-Hyacinthe Dunouy);

With W.M. Brady & Co., New York;

Where acquired by the present collector in 1994.

Alexandre-Hyacinthe Dunouy was a French landscape painter who exhibited in the Paris Salon in 1791. His travels took him to Rome and Naples, where he made oil sketches en plein air of specific sites with precise details and natural lighting. This painting depicts the ancient Roman town Stabiae, where the Roman author and philosopher Pliny the Elder died in AD 79. A connection can be drawn between Dunouy and Pliny, since both dedicated their corpus to narrating the natural world. While Pliny used words and ink, Dunouy used brushes and colors.