Curtis_O_Baer_2010

24. Giuseppe Zocchi Italian, 1711 – 1767 View of a Town verso: Buildings on a Hill

Brown ink and wash 7 1 ⁄ 4 x 9 7 ⁄ 8 inches ( 18 . 4 x 25 . 1 cm) Inscribed in pen on lower right: Crespellano

provenance Schaeffer Galleries; Collection Curtis O. Baer

exhibition Atlanta, 1985 , cat. no. 118 , p. 176

One of the renowned vedutisti of the 18 th–century, Zocchi began his training in Venice. Under the patronage of the Marchese Andrea Gerini, he drew the most remarkable monuments and sites of Florence, as Guardi and Canaletto had done for Venice, and Piranesi for Rome. Many of his original drawings of Florence, engraved and published during his lifetime, are in the collection of the Pierpont Morgan Library. Crespellano is a town near Bologna, where Zocchi is recorded to have been in late 1743 as part of the artist’s first viaggio d’instruzzione following his training in Venice. This instructional journey began in Lombardy and continued around Bologna (Alessandro Tosi, Inventare la realtà: Giuseppe Tocchi e la Toscana del Settecento , Florence, 1997 ).

According to the 1985 exhibition cata logue, the attribution was suggested by Marco Chirani.

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