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Claude-Louis Châtelet
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Description
- Claude-Louis Châtelet
- A view of the Strait of Messina
- Pen and black ink and watercolour, within brown ink framing lines
Catalogue Note
Engraved:
In aquatint by P. M. Alix and J. Dambrun for the Abbé de Saint-Non, Voyage pittoresque, ou description des royaumes de Naples et de Sicile, 1785, vol. IV, pl. 8
In aquatint by P. M. Alix and J. Dambrun for the Abbé de Saint-Non, Voyage pittoresque, ou description des royaumes de Naples et de Sicile, 1785, vol. IV, pl. 8
This view of the Strait of Messina, the narrow passage of water between the eastern tip of Sicily and the western tip of Calabria, was executed by Châtelet between 1780 and 1781 during his trip to Italy in the company of Louis-Jean Desprez and Dominique Vivant-Denon. This and other landscape illustrations by the artist were commissioned for the Abbé de Saint-Non’s travel book Voyage pittoresque, ou description des royaumes de Naples et de Sicile, published in five volumes between 1781 and 1786. Along with Desprez, Châtelet was responsible for the largest number of the illustrations, and these drawings were to be the artist’s most important commission during his lifetime.