A View of Naples through a Window
1824
Franz Ludwig Catel
Franz Ludwig Catel (German, 1778–1856)
Modern European Painting and Sculpture
A View of Naples through a Window, 1824. Franz Ludwig Catel (German, 1778–1856). Oil on paper, mounted on canvas; framed: 59.5 x 46 x 5.5 cm (23 7/16 x 18 1/8 x 2 3/16 in.); unframed: 46.8 x 33.5 cm (18 7/16 x 13 3/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund 1994.198 Franz Ludwig Catel worked in Rome and later traveled south to Naples. This painting presents that city’s most distinctive attraction: Mount Vesuvius, an active volcano that appears against an otherwise calm sky. Catel portrayed the scene from within a hotel room, contrasting the potentially overwhelming force of nature with the illusion of protection offered by distance and enclosed space. Mount Vesuvius was almost continuously active at the time that Franz Ludwig Catel visited Naples, and erupted just two years before this painting was completed.
- Maker/Artist
- Catel, Franz Ludwig
- Classification
- Painting
- Formatted Medium
- oil on paper, mounted on canvas
- Dimensions
- Framed: 59.5 x 46 x 5.5 cm (23 7/16 x 18 1/8 x 2 3/16 in.); Unframed: 46.8 x 33.5 cm (18 7/16 x 13 3/16 in.)
- Departments
- Modern European Painting and Sculpture
- Accession Number
- 1994.198
- Credit Line
- Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund
- Exhibitions
- In the Light of Italy: Corot and Early Plein-air Painting, Paysages d'Italie. Les peintres du plein air 1780-1830, "un paese incantato" Italia dipinta da Thomas Jones a Corot, Rooms with Views: The Open Window in the 19th Century, The Last Days of Pompeii: Decadence, Apocalypse, Resurrection, Stories From Storage, Paris: Galeries nationales du Grand Palais (4/3 - 7/9/01); Mantova, Italy: Palazzo Te (9/1 - 12/16/01) "Paysages d'Italie. Les peintres du plein air (1780-1830), exh. cat. no. 155, pp 254-255.
- Rights Statement
- CC0
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