Live Auction 20906The Collection of Pierre Durand
LUIGI MAYER (1755-1803)
Lot 215

LUIGI MAYER (1755-1803)

View of the Dardanelles

Closed27 January 2022

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USD 11,875

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LUIGI MAYER (1755-1803)
View of the Dardanelles
watercolor and bodycolor
13 5⁄8 x 21 1⁄8 in. (34.6 x 53.8 cm)

Specialist note

After training in Rome with Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Luigi Mayer traveled to the Eastern Mediterranean with Sir Robert Ainslie, British ambassador to Constantinople. Mayer created a large number of watercolors depicting the sites they visited. A very similar view of the Dardanelles, with only some minor differences from the present composition, is at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London (inv. SD.656).