Piazza del Popolo, Rome
Jacopo Fabris (c.1689 - 1761)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
circa 1740
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
686 x 1080 mm (27 x 42 1/2 in)
Place of origin
Rome
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Saltram, Devon
NT 872122
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Piazza del Popolo, Rome by Jacopo Fabris (1689-1761). The Piazza del Popolo held a particular significance for most visitors to Rome as their first experience of the city, situated directly inside the Porta del Popolo, at the end of the Via Flaminia, the main route to the city from the north. According to Charles Beddington ('Bernardo Bellotto and his circle in Italy and a masterpiece by Francesco Guardi', exh cat. Charles Beddington Ltd., 2014, cat. 1 [unpaginated]), "No depiction by Canaletto of the square is known; the surviving drawings from his only visit to Rome in 1719-20, five of which were used by Bellotto for paintings, are mostly of the ancient rather than the modern city. It is possible, however, that one existed, as one or more of the early variants of the composition may be attributable to Canaletto's father (and Bellotto's grandfather) Bernado Canal (1664-1744), who often borrowed his son's compositions; others are by Jacopo Fabris (1689-1761), who left Italy for Northern Europe definitively in 1741." Beddington identifies the present picture as by Fabris in note 7.
Provenance
Accepted by the Treasury in part payment of death-duties from the executors of Edmund Robert Parker, 4th Earl of Morley (1877-1951) and transferred to the Trust in 1957.
Credit line
Saltram, The Morley Collection (National Trust)
Makers and roles
Jacopo Fabris (c.1689 - 1761), artist Bernardo Bellotto (Venice 1722 – Warsaw 1780), artist previously catalogued as manner of Antonio Canaletto (Venice 1697 - Venice 1768) , artist