Marktszene bei Neapel mit Blick auf den Vesuv. 1888.
Oil on canvas.
Signed and dated lower right. 122 x 150 cm (48 x 59 in).


• Delicately composed view of Naples in atmospheric colors.
• Oswald Achenbach's art had a significant impact on the picture of Italy in the post-Romantic period.
• Along with his brother Andreas, he was one of Europe's leading landscape painters and helped establish the reputation of the Düsseldorf School.
• Neapolitan scenes found their way into renowned collections during his lifetime. Variations on the motif can be found in the Bavarian State Painting Collections, the Kunsthalle Hamburg, and the Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf, among others.

PROVENANCE: Private collection, North Rhine-Westphalia.

EXHIBITION: Oswald Achenbach im Kunsthaus Lempertz, Cologne, Sept./Oct. 1995.