Live Auction 13731Brian Sewell - Critic & Collector
Xavier della Gatta (active Naples 1777-1829)
Lot 55

Xavier della Gatta (active Naples 1777-1829)

Four costume studies

Closed27 September 2016

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GBP 6,000

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Xavier della Gatta (active Naples 1777-1829)
Four costume studies
inscribed 'Donna della Torre del Greco.' (twice) (i); signed and dated 'Xav.? Gatta p./ 1800' and inscribed 'Delle colline di Posilipo' (ii); signed and dated 'Gatta f. 1799' and inscribed 'Dell' Aquila' (iii); signed and dated 'Xav.? Gatta f. 1799' and inscribed 'Di Pietraroja' (iv)
bodycolour, on feigned mounts
10 3/8 x 8 3/8 in. (26.3 x 21.2 cm.), and smaller
(4)

Specialist note

Della Gatta often repeated popular views and costume studies like these. Another version of Dell' Aquila, for example, which is signed and dated 'Gatta P. 1783' was sold at Christie's, London, 18 April 1989, lot 54. The drawing called Delle colline di Posilipo seems to have been inspired by a drawing of the same composition by Pietro Fabris (fl. 1754-1804) (M.C. Masdea and A. Caròla-Perrotti, in Napoli-Firenze e Ritorno: Costumi popolari del Regno di Napoli: nelle Collezioni Borboniche e Lorenesi, exhib. cat., Florence, Palazzo Pitti, 1991, p. 70, ill, p. 195).