Antonio Joli

Lt. Col. G.A.F. Kennard, 1959;

With Thomas Agnew & Sons Ltd., London (inv. no. 19511);

From whom acquired by Mr. G. Wiles, Queenstown, New Zealand (according to a label on the verso);

Anonymous sale, Christie's, London, 17 November 1972, lot 40;

With Dickinson Gallery, London;

With Robilant & Voena, London, 2006;

From whom acquired by the present collector.

Catalogo Bolaffi della pittura italiana del '600 e del '700, Turin 1974, vol. I, p. 107, reproduced;

F. Arisi, Gian Paolo Panini e i fasti della Roma del '700, Rome 1986, p. 38;

M. Manzelli, Antonio Joli, opera pittorica, Venice 1999, p. 132, cat. no. C.28, reproduced fig. 122;

R. Toledano, Antonio Joli, Turin 2006, p. 116, cat. no. C.XXIV, reproduced.

Antonio Joli produced this impressive composition circa 1762, soon after his move to Naples. Both the statuary and the architecture that feature in the capriccio are almost identical to those that appear in three paintings by Giovanni Paolo Panini, with whom Joli likely trained in Rome at the outset of his career.¹ A horizontal variant of the present composition recently sold at Sotheby's, London, 7 December 2023, lot 66,

¹ Arisi 1986, pp. 242-243, cat. nos. 52-54, reproduced.