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LOTE 56:

CARLO LABRUZZI (Rome, 1748 - Perugia, 1817)

a. Villa of Domitian in Castel Gandolfo
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CARLO LABRUZZI (Rome, 1748 - Perugia, 1817)

a. Villa of Domitian in Castel Gandolfo
Watercolor on paper, cm. 38x53. Framed
Upper a pen inscription: "109". On the back a pensil study of a tower in a landscape.
LITERATURE: P.A. De Rosa - B. Jatta, La Via Appia nei disegni di Carlo Labruzzi alla Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Città del Vaticano, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, 2013, TAV. 100, pp. 298-299 (of this view are published two versions in sepia, today at the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana and the Accademia di San Luca).

b. Ruins of the Mausoleum of Gallieno at the Casale di Fiorano at the ninth mile of the Via Appia
Watercolor on paper, cm. 36,5x52. Framed
This view was engraved by Labruzzi in a third and later series of etchings dedicated to the Via Appia, which however, unlike the two that preceded it, was never published. Labruzzi watercolored the matrices and these sheets are today at the Biblioteca Sarti in the Accademia di San Luca and at the Museo di Roma.
LITERATURE: De Rosa - Jatta 2014, TAV. 74, p. 257-258 (of this view are published three versions in sepia, today at the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Accademia Nazionale di San Luca and Galleria Apolloni, Roma, plus a watercolor print of the Museo di Roma).

An exceptional group of twenty large watercolors is presented in ten distinct and successive lots, which fall within the broader question of the series of archaeological views executed by Carlo Labruzzi starting from 1789, following the assignment received by Sir Richard Coalt Hoare, english amateur archaeologist and painter. Labruzzi created various series of drawings for a total of many hundreds of sheets, preferring the watercolor technique, in sepia or polychrome. The project involved the systematic reconnaissance, census and visual documentation of all the Roman monuments that were along the Via Appia up to Brinidisi, following the itinerary undertaken by Orazio in the company, among others, of Eliodoro, Mecenate, Cocciaio Nerva and Virgil and narrated by the great Latin poet in the first book of the Satires (Fifth Satire). Thus it was that Hoare and Labruzzi embarked on a joint journey that began on Saturday 31 October 1789 and which, due to a series of circumstances, did not end, interrupting itself in Benevento. In the following centuries, various nucleus were reassembled as a result of sales and transfers on the market, the most consistent of which are today at the Museum of Rome, the Accademia di San Luca, the British Museum in London and above all in the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, which holds an exceptional collection of 226 sheets from the collection of the great English archaeologist Thomas Ashby).Thanks to the date present in lot 65a ("18 MARZO1796", 18th of March 1796) we can establish an execution for our group of watercolors within the first half of that same year. This dating, moreover, authorizes us to believe that Labruzzi occasionally continued to replicate his designs in the years following the trip to respond to market demand. As the old typewritten English cartouche applied to lot 56a suggests, it is presumed that the whole set of sheets came from Great Britain, before the current ownership was bought several decades ago.


PROVENANCE: Private collection, Rome.