Classical Ruins of a Doric Arcade and Corinthian Colonnade with Lazzaroni and a Fortune-teller
Niccolò Codazzi (Naples 1642 - Genoa 1693)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1670 - 1699
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
711 x 1041 mm (28 x 41 in)
Order this imageCollection
Saltram, Devon
NT 872164
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Classical Ruins of a Doric Arcade and Corinthian Colonnade with Lazzaroni and a Fortune-teller, attributed to Niccolò Codazzi (Naples 1642 – Genoa 1693) and a follower of Jacob de Heusch (1657-1701). Groups of beggars resting under a ruined colonnade.
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 (accepted in lieu of tax by HM Government and transferred to the National Trust in 1957)
Makers and roles
Niccolò Codazzi (Naples 1642 - Genoa 1693) , artist previously catalogued as attributed to Giovanni Paolo Panini (Piacanza c.1692 - Rome 1765) , artist
References
Marshall 1993 David Ryley Marshall, Viviano and Niccolò Codazzi and the Baroque Architectural Fantasy, Milan & Rome, 1993, 1993, cat. NC 22, p.363