Master Paintings and 19th Century European Art
Master Paintings and 19th Century European Art
From the Collection of Seymour and Zoya Slive
Andrea Locatelli
Landscape in Latium with bathers on the banks of a river
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May 25, 07:43 PM GMT
Estimate
15,000 - 20,000 USD
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From the Collection of Seymour and Zoya Slive
Andrea Locatelli
Rome 1695 - 1741
Landscape in Latium with bathers on the banks of a river
oil on canvas
canvas: 21 by 53 ½ in.; 53.3 by 135.9 cm.
framed: 30 by 60 ½ in.; 76.2 by 153.7 cm.
Harriet J. Guild, Brookline, Massachusetts, by June 1883 (as Gaspard Poussin);
Elizabeth Parker, Boston (as Gaspard Poussin);
Seymour and Zoya Slive, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Trustees of the Museum of Fine Arts, Eighth Annual Report, for the Year Ending Dec. 31, 1883, Boston 1884 p. 17 (as Gaspard Poussin);
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Fortieth Annual Report for the Year 1915, Boston 1916, p. 122 (as Poussin);
A. Busiri Vici, Andrea Locatelli, Rome 1976, n.p., cat. no. 125, reproduced.
Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, 1883 (as Gaspard Poussin, on loan from Miss Harriet J. Guild);
Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, 1915 (as Gaspard Poussin, on loan from the heirs of Miss Harriet J. Guild through Mrs. Richard F. Parke).
This idyllic Italianate landscape, featuring a picturesque hilltop villa, a placid river, and distant hills, is a particularly successful work by Andrea Locatelli. Notable within the artist’s oeuvre for its unusual length and horizontality, the vast panoramic scope of the composition imbues the scene with a sense of grandeur and suggests that the painting might have been intended as an overdoor. The group of bathers in the foreground are a particularly original note, demonstrating the harmony between nature and human life often evoked in Locatelli’s works.