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.
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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) |