The Bay of Naples, seen through a Grotto
Italian School
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1700 - 1799
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
584 x 1613 mm (23 x 63 1/2 in)
Place of origin
Naples
Order this imageCollection
Lyme, Cheshire
NT 499996
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, The Bay or Naples, seen through a Grotto, Italian School, 18th century. View of Naples; foreground dominated by natural rock grotto framed by two arches from which trees and foliage sprout. Figures in 18th-century dress sit and stand on the shore, or in boats. Naples lies across the water to the left and Vesuvius on the far right. Several boats in the middle distance.
Provenance
Original to the house.
Makers and roles
Italian School, artist previously catalogued as manner of Antonio Joli (Modena c.1700 – Naples 1777), artist