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View of the Bay of Naples

Ca. 1880

La Baie des Anges a Nice et le Casino is a lovely gouache on paper from 1928. The work is fully authenticated by Fanny Guillon-Laffaille and is listed in the Raoul Dufy Catalogue Rai...

Approximate Date: 1954 Medium: Gouache on Paperboard Signature: Signed Lower Left Size: 26 1/8 x 20 in. Saturday Evening Post, October 9, 1954, cover illustration. Exhibited: Norman Rockwell Museum...

Gouache painting of a winter landscape by French artist Maurice Esnault (1854-1940). Signed and dated 1919 lower right of painting with "Hiver" (Winter) below. Unframed.

This gouache depicts the road leading to the artist's family home in the countryside. It depicts the road through several seasons and times of day. It represents a symbol of nature, ...

Neapolitan gouaches appeared in the eighteenth century when tourism in the Naples area was developing: the discoveries of Herculaneum and Pompeii made this city a mandatory stop on the Grand Tour, the journey made by wealthy Europeans to complete their education. Generally small in size for ease of transport and affordable in price, these gouaches were the ideal travel souvenir that these tourists of the early days were bringing back to capture the idyllic landscapes they had discovered during their journey and to share them with family and friends upon their return at home. The Bay of Naples and the eruptions of Vesuvius are the favourite themes of these views. Here we have a view of the Ovo Castle, which was rebuilt on the island of Partenope, in the middle of the Bay of Naples and about a hundred metres from the shore by the Normans in the 12th century on antique ruins...

PIOTR FĄFROWICZ (born in 1958). He studied art history at the Catholic University of Lublin. He deals with painting and graphic design. Winner of numerous awards for illustrations, i...