Flemish painter active in Italy in the eighteenth century Mediterranean coastal landscape with architectures and figures Oil on Canvas (69 x 88 cm., framed 80 x 100 cm.) Detailed information about this painting directly on our personal website at the following - link - The suggestive view presented depicts a coastal glimpse with a bay and the ruins of an ancient building, probably a monastery or a church, and in the background another construction with a garden surrounded by high walls close to the shore. The type of landscape, typical of the environment of southern Italy, and the intimate atmosphere that welcomes the scene, attributes the authorship of the work to a view painter active in the eighteenth century, presumably in Italy in this period, with immediate references to the Dutch school, and in particular to the ambit of the production of Jacob de Heusch and especially of Gaspar van Wittel, considered the progenitor of Italian view painting. Indeed, in the rendering of architectural details, in the purity with which the buildings have been weighed, as well as in the atmosphere that encloses the entire landscape, there is a marked correspondence to the so-called “Vanvitellian verism:'' one can in fact note a comparison with a certain series of views that the Dutchman dedicated especially to Rome. In the foreground we then find the genre scenes that the artist loved to insert in his refined views: the fishermen, a pier with a boat moored and two bathers who are drying themselves serve to humanize a view with an almost metaphysical atmosphere. Our author must certainly have been fascinated by Van Wittel's creations and tried in this painting to pick up the compositional cue; As an example we can mention ‘’The Tiber in Castel Sant’Angelo, seen from the south”, by Van Wittel Gaspar (Rome, Italian Banking Institute Collection), datable around 1715, for the luminous rendering and the definition of the agglomeration of buildings, as well as the figures in the foreground intent on bathing. The painting is completed by a pleasant wooden frame. The painting is in excellent condition and is sold complete with a certificate of authenticity according to law. Also follow us on: https://www.instagram.com/galleriacastelbarco/?hl=it https://www.facebook.com/galleriacastelbarco/