Die Bucht von Neapel mit Blick auf den Vesuv. 1881.
Oil on canvas.
Signed and dated in lower right. 43 x 60 cm (16.9 x 23.6 in).

• For the first time offered on the market in 70 years.
• The contrasts of light and shade make for this work's fascinating composition
• From the creative period f the 1880s which is characterized by an overall more transparent and light-flooded effect.

We are grateful to Galerie Paffrath, Düsseldorf, for the kind support in cataloging this lot.

PROVENANCE: Carl F. Schlüter Art- and Auctions, Hamburg (on consignment in 1926).
Private collection Baden-Württemberg (family-owned for more than 70 years).

LITERATURE: Carl F. Schlüter Kunst- und Auktionshaus Hamburg, Herbst-Kunstauktion über Gemälde alter und neuer Meister: zum Teil aus dem Besitze von Kaiser Karl von Österreich, aus historischen Schlössern, sowie in anderweitigem Auftrage; auction on October 26 - 29, 1926, lot 43 (with illu. on plate VII).