Mount Vesuvius and the Bay of Naples
Mount Vesuvius and the Bay of Naples
Mount Vesuvius and the Bay of Naples
Mount Vesuvius and the Bay of Naples
Mount Vesuvius and the Bay of Naples
Mount Vesuvius and the Bay of Naples
Mount Vesuvius and the Bay of Naples
Mount Vesuvius and the Bay of Naples
Mount Vesuvius and the Bay of Naples
Mount Vesuvius and the Bay of Naples
Mount Vesuvius and the Bay of Naples
Mount Vesuvius and the Bay of Naples
Mount Vesuvius and the Bay of Naples
Mount Vesuvius and the Bay of Naples
Mount Vesuvius and the Bay of Naples
Mount Vesuvius and the Bay of Naples
Mount Vesuvius and the Bay of Naples
Mount Vesuvius and the Bay of Naples
Mount Vesuvius and the Bay of Naples
Mount Vesuvius and the Bay of Naples
Mount Vesuvius and the Bay of Naples
Mount Vesuvius and the Bay of Naples

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Mount Vesuvius and the Bay of Naples,

1839

Franz Ludwig Catel, German, 1778–1856
2010-112

This landscape was recently identified as a work by Franz Ludwig Catel. Trained in Berlin, Dresden, and Paris, in 1811 he moved to Italy, where he painted landscapes and genre scenes for tourists. Catel created at least three versions of this view, a subject popular during and after the Romantic period for its emphasis on unruly nature. This version was most likely made for the future Czar Alexander II of Russia. Two Neapolitan guides accompany an intrepid couple to the brink of the crater, while their companion, with two more guides, waits on a donkey below. The inferno is balanced by a golden sunset over Castellammare, with the island of Capri in the distance.

Information

Title
Mount Vesuvius and the Bay of Naples
Dates

1839

Maker
Franz Ludwig Catel
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
96 × 135 cm (37 13/16 × 53 1/8 in.) frame: 120.6 × 158.7 × 9.2 cm (47 1/2 × 62 1/2 × 3 5/8 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Dr. A. Richard Turner, Class of 1955 and Graduate School Class of 1959, and Mrs. Turner
Object Number
2010-112
Place Depicted

Europe, Italy, Campania, Naples, Bay of Naples

Culture
German
Type
oil paintings, paintings
Materials
oil paint, canvas
Subject
roads, boats, figures (representations), coastlines, landscapes (representations), suns, smoke, grass, men, cliffs, women, villages, cities, seas, volcanoes

Dr. A. Richard Turner and Mrs. Turner; 2010 gift to Princeton University Art Museum.

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