Christoph Heinrich Kniep
View of the Temple of Venus, Baiae; Ruins of the Temple of Proserpine on Lake Avernus
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Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 EUR
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Christoph Heinrich Kniep
Hildesheim 1755 - 1825 Naples
A) View of the Temple of Venus, Baiae
B) Ruins of the Temple of Proserpine on Lake Avernus
Both pen and black ink and brown wash, within drawn borders, the borders toned with light green wash
A) Signed and dated lower left C.H. Kniep. Napoli. 1787; inscribed, top left margin 1. Ruins du Temple de Venus à Baiae. par Kniep
B) Signed lower left C. Kniep. Napoli; inscribed top left margin 2. Ruines du Temple de Proserpine au lac Averne. par Kniep
A) 592 by 815 mm
B) 600 by 815 mm
(2)
Anonymous sale, Blindarte Casa D'Aste, Naples, 11 December 2011, lot 128;
With Paolo Antonacci, Rome, Views of the Grand Tour, From the late 18th to the 19th Century, 2012, nos. 3 and 4.
S. Cassani (ed.), All'ombra del Vesuvio. Napoli nella veduta europea dal Quattrocento all'Ottocento, exhib. cat., Naples, Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte, 1990, p. 404, reproduced pp. 246, 250;
G. Striehl, Der Zeichner Christoph Heinrich Kniep (1755-1825), Landschaftsauffassung und Antikenrezeption, Hildesheim/Zürich/New York, 1998, pp. 152, 154, no. 580, 581.
