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Gaspar van Wittel, called Vanvitelli

Rome, A View of the Piazza del Popolo

Auction Closed

May 21, 02:59 PM GMT

Estimate

400,000 - 600,000 USD

Lot Details

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Gaspar van Wittel, called Vanvitelli

Amersfoort 1652/1653 - 1736 Rome

Rome, A View of the Piazza del Popolo


signed lower right on stone block: G: V: / W.

oil on canvas

canvas: 13 ¾ by 23 ¾ in.; 34.9 by 60.3 cm

framed: 17 ½ by 27 ¾ in.; 44.5 by 70.5 cm

Anonymous sale ("The Property of a Lady"), London, Sotheby's, 9 July 1998, lot 108;

Where acquired by Jordan and Thomas A. Saunders III.

R. Evren, in With Observation and Imagination: Still Lifes, Genre Scenes, Portraits, and Landscapes from the Saunders Collection, exhibition catalogue, A.K. Wheelock Jr. (ed.), New York 2021, pp. 122-125, 175-176, cat. no. 29, reproduced.

Richmond, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Elegance and Wonder: Masterpieces of European Art from the Jordan and Thomas A. Saunders III Collection, 20 March 2023 - 30 January 2025, no. 29.