November 24, 2022

A Long Overdue Visit to the Met (Part 2)

A Village on Ischia (Fontana?), ca. 1828, oil on paper,
laid down on cardboard by Lèon Fleury (1804-1858)

Pictured are a handful of paintings depicting Southern Italy by Northern European artists dating from the 18th- and early 19th-century currently on view in the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s European Paintings collection.


[See Part 1] [See Part 3]

The Palace of Donn'Anna, Naples, 1843. oil on paper,
laid down on canvas by Jules Coignet (1798-1860)
Ravine at Sorrento, 1821 or later, oil on paper mounted
on board by Édouard Bertin (1797-1871)
Virgil's Tomb by Moonlight, with Silius Italicus Declaiming, 1779,
Oil on Canvas by Joseph Wright, Wright of Derby (1734-1797)
Sunset, Sorrento, 1834, oil on paper, laid down on card
by Thomas Fearnley (1802-1842)
Virgil's Tomb, Naples, ca. 1818, oil on paper, laid down
on canvas by Franz Ludwig Catel (1778-1856)
View of Monte Sant'Angelo from the Villa Auriemma near Sorrento,
1832, oil on paper, laid down on canvas by August Lucas (1803-1863)
Lake Fucino and the Abruzzi Mountains, ca. 1789, oil on paper,
laid down on canvas by Joseph Bidauld (1758-1846)
The Grotto of Posillipo, Naples, 1820, oil on paper,
laid down on masonite by Gustaf Söderberg (1799-1875)