ANTONIO JOLI
29 3/4 x 39 3/4 in
Provenance
Commissioned by Sir James Gray, 2nd Bt. (c. 1708 - 1773), Envoy Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary in Naples 1759 - 1764;
James Hugh Smith Barry (1746 - 1801), who was in Naples from 1772 - 73 and again in 1779, Marbury Hall, Cheshire, and by inheritance in the Smith Barry family until 1932, when the house was sold (19th or early 20th century inscription ‘Mr Smith-Barry’ on a label on the back of the frame);
Anonymous sale [‘The Property of a Lady’], Sotheby’s, London, 14 December 1977, lot 109;
With Colnaghi, London (Pictures from the Grand Tour, 14 November – 16 December 1978, no. 33, illustrated);
Private collection, Europe.
Exhibitions
Padula, Certosa di S. Lorenzo, La fortuna di Paestum e la memoria moderna del dorico, 1750-1830, June 1986, I, pp. 47-8, 58 and 62-4, no. 1b.
Literature
A Catalogue of Paintings, Statues, Busts, &c. at Marbury Hall, The Seat of John Smith Barry, Esq. In the County of Chester, Warrington 1819, p. 2, no. 33 ‘Ruins – Anto. Jolli.’;
N. Spinosa in Civiltà del ’700 a Napoli, 1734-1799, exh. cat., Naples 1979 - 1980, p. 288;
N. Spinosa, Pittura napoletana del Settecento: dal Rococò al Classicismo, Naples 1987, p. 157, no. 280, fig. 379;
N. Spinosa and L. di Mauro, Vedute napoletane del Settecento, Naples 1989, pp. 182 and 192, fig. 70;
M. Utili in All’ombra del Vesuvio: Napoli nella veduta europea dal Quattrocento all’Ottocento, exh. cat., Castel Sant’Elmo, Naples 1990, p. 400;
L. Salerno, I pittori di vedute in Italia (1580-1830), Rome 1991, p. 256, no. 65;
R. Middione, Antonio Joli, Soncino 1995, pp. 31 and 92, fig. 19;
J. Ingamells, A Dictionary of British and Irish Travellers in Italy 1701-1800, compiled from the Brinsley Ford Archive, New Haven and London 1997, p. 424;
M. Manzelli, Antonio Joli: Opera pittorica, Venice 1999, p. 118, no. W.5, fig. 97;
C. Beddington, ‘Antonio Joli. Opera pittorica by Mario Manzelli’, The Burlington Magazine, CXLII, no. 1171, October 2000, p. 640;
R. Toledano, Antonio Joli, Turin 2006, p. 396, no. N.XL, and p. 84, colour pl. L;
G. Narciso in Antonio Joli tra Napoli, Roma e Madrid: le vedute, le rovine, i capricci, le scenografie teatrali, exh. cat., Palazzo Reale, Caserta, 15 June – 14 October 2012, pp. 86-7.