Live Auction 18953Italian Drawings From The Robert Landolt Collection
Aniello Falcone (Naples 1607-1656)
Lot 81

Aniello Falcone (Naples 1607-1656)

A view at Solfatara

Closed8 December 2020

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GBP 2,750

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Aniello Falcone (Naples 1607-1656)
A view at Solfatara
with Carpio's inscription ‘Falcone. Solfatara.’ and ‘68’ over an inscription ‘72’ (on the old mount)
red chalk and red wash, watermark bird in a circle
6 ¾ x 11 ¾ in. (17 x 30 cm)

Don Gaspar Méndez de Haro y Guzman, Marchese del Carpio e Helice (1629-1687).
Anonymous sale; Christie’s, London, 20 March 1973, lot 31 (to Hans Calmann).
Mr and Mrs. H.M. Calmann; Christie’s, London, 7 July 1981, lot 72, where acquired by Robert Landolt.

Specialist note


This drawing is still preserved on the sheet from an album of drawings from the collection of the great collector and connoisseur Don Gaspar Méndez de Haro y Guzman, Marchese del Carpio e Helice. His collection was kept in 33 albums, and the one from which this sheet comes was dispersed at Christie’s, 20 March 1973, lots 1-38. It included ten drawings by Falcone (lots 28-37), of which six were landscape drawings.