Ippolito Caffi
(Belluno, 1809- Lissa, 1866)
Oil on canvas, 68 x 93 cm
Carnival in Rome, the Moccoletti
signed "CAFFI" on the step in the lower right corner
EXPERTISE
Annalisa Scarpa (2020)
Pope Pius IX’s Nocturnal Blessing in Piazza del Quirinale
Signed in the lower right corner: Caffi 1850Inscribed on the verso: A hand-written old label, dating to the first half of the 19th century reads: «Green drawing room Pictures […] / Picture of the Drago Palace & Barberini / Palace gardens in foreground – game of Pal[la] / going on – by Vanvitelli delle […]hi[…] / 1736 Bought in Rome by Mr & Mrs H. Ol[mius?] / […]05 as a souvenir of their stay in the Del Dra[go]/ [w]hich was the American Embassy»
Expertise: Ralph Toledano (2011)Inscribed, signed and dated Porto di Salerno / Filippo Hackert dipinse 1797 (lower centre)
Bibliography: Nordhoff and H. Reimer, Jakob Philipp Hackert 1737-1807: Verzeichnis seiner Werker, Berlin, 1994, p. 131, no. 272.