View of the Castel Sant'Angelo in Rome

View of the Castel Sant'Angelo in Rome

SK-A-3958

Gezicht te Rome over de Tiber naar de Engelenburcht en de Sint Pieter. Op de voorgrond figuren bij een veerpont of vissersboot, meer naar achteren de Ponte S. Angelo.

• painter: attributed to Pierre Antoine Demachy
• painter: Caspar van Wittel [rejected attribution]

1750 - 1800

oil on canvas

• height 48 cm x width 97.8 cm
• depth 5.2 cm

purchase 1959

Public domain

…; collection Robert de Flers (1872-1927), Paris;{Note RMA.}…; anonymous sale, Vienna (Dorotheum), 12 March 1959 sqq., no. 130, with pendant no. 129; no. 130 only, as Gaspari Vanvitelli alias Gaspar Wittel, fl. 8,572.93, to the museum

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