AUGUSTE JEAN-BAPTISTE VINCHON | THE RUINS OF DOMITIAN'S VILLA AT CASTEL GANDOLFO WITH THE CHAPEL OF THE VIRGIN MARY

With Simon Dickinson Inc, New York;

Where acquired by the present collector circa 1999.

Rome and The Campagna: Oil sketches by Auguste Jean-Baptiste Vinchon and other French artists, exhibition catalogue, New York 1999, pp. 14-5, cat. no. 16, reproduced.

This painting depicts the Villa of Domitian, a sumptuous villa built for Emperor Titus Flavius Domitian (81 - 96 AD) in the Alban Hills, overlooking Lake Albano. The ruins in this composition recall a capriccio, while the wild nature depicted with loose strokes heightened by the daylight create an atmospheric sense of immediacy.

For more information on the artist, please refer to Lot 216.