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FRIEDRICH SALATHÉ
(1793 Binningen near Basel – 1858 Paris)
Castel Gandolfo
Water colour and opaque colours, partially covering underdrawing in
black chalk, circumferential border line in black Indian ink,
partially varnished, 210 x 324 mm, signed, labelled and dated in
black Indian ink in the bottom left-hand corner: »F. Salathé. Roma
1820.«, verso on vintage lamination: location marked in pencil in a
foreign hand in the bottom right-hand corner: »Castel Gandolfo«
Condition: slight fox marks, laminated
Provenance: private collection in Berlin
Created during the artist’s seven year sojourn in Italy from 1815 -
1821. Castel Gandolfo, situated around 20 km south-east of Rome on
Lake Albano, was rebuilt to house the papal palace in the years 1624
- 1629. The artist lived in the Eternal City in 1820, and could
reach the papal residence in just a day.
The illustrative water colour was not produced in front of the
subject, as the location, »Roma«, reveals. It is likely that Salathé
travelled to Castel Gandolfo to make studies which he made use of
later on.
The painting was produced during his most productive creative period.
»It is obvious that the years 1819 - 1821, in Rome und Naples,
constitute the highlights of his creative period« (Yvonne
Boerlin-Brodbeck in: Ein Zeichner der Romantik - Friedrich Salathé,
Basel (Kat. Ausstellung) 1988, S. 13 (»Friedrich Salathé - a
Draughtsman of the Romantic Age«, Basel [cat. Exhibition], 1988, p.
13) |
