Giovanni Grevenbroeck, called Solfarolo

Royal collection, Toulouse, France (according to prior family tradition);

Mrs. Florence Proctor Gilbert, Cincinnati, Ohio, by 1910;

From whom acquired by a private collector, Atlanta, Georgia;

Thence by descent in the family to a subsequent private collector;

By whom anonymously sold, New York, Sotheby's, 19 May 1994, lot 122A (as Orazio Grevenbroeck);

Where acquired by the present collector. 

F. Dassie, I Grevenbroeck, Verona 2019, pp. 50-51, cat. nos 24, 24a, reproduced.  

This pair of capricci have recently been recognized by Dr. Fabrizio Dassie, to whom we are grateful, as mature works by Giovanni Grevenbroeck, called Solfarolo, who was the father of artists Orazio, Alessandro, and Carlo Leopoldo. As noted by Dassie in his recent catalogue on this family dynasty of painters, the former canvas, with its distinct colonnade, compares closely to several other canvases by Giovanni.¹ The latter canvas features a slightly different perspective, one that draws attention toward the fortified group of buildings at left as well as to the caravan of camels in the foreground. The inclusion of such exotic animals was a fashionable choice among contemporary Dutch artists of the period, such as Johannes Lingelbach, Hendrik Minderhout, and Abraham Begeyn.

1. Dassie 2019, cat. nos. 8 and 23.