Albert Christophe Dies (Hannover 1755-1822 Vienna)

After a short stay in Basel in 1775, Albert Christophe Dies arrived in Rome where he would stay until 1797. Here the artist was active as a landscape painter and he collaborated with artists such as Johann Christian Reinhart and Jacob Wilhelm Mechau and he worked in the studio of Giovanni Volpato. During this Roman period, Dies made numerous refined drawings documenting his trips to cities like Naples and Tivoli. This sheet is a fine example of this type of drawing and can be compared to a drawing which was probably made on the same trip, as it signed and dated 1785 like the present sheet, and another view near Tivoli bathed in golden light (anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 16 April 1997, lot 342 and subsequently sold at; anonymous sale; Bassenge, Berlin, 28 November 1997, lot 5539).