SIMON-MATHURIN LANTARA | A landscape with a farmer and his herd and ruins on a hill, with a distant view of Naples and Mount Vesuvius beyond

Private collection, Australia;

Anonymous sale, London, Bonhams Knightsbridge, 17 June 2008, lot 59 (as Italian School, 19th century).

Lantara was a self-taught artist born near Fontainebleu. He is mostly known for landscape paintings and views such as the present work, which carefully depicts the effect of light on the vegetation and on the distant view of the Gulf of Naples.