Attributed to Franz Kaisermann, Swiss 1765-1833- Falls of Tivoli; pencil and watercolour on paper, 67 x 104 cm. Provenance: Private Collection, UK. Note: The present watercolour, typical of Kaisermann's style, displays a picturesque scene of the...

Attributed to Franz Kaisermann, Swiss 1765-1833- Falls of Tivoli; pencil and watercolour on paper, 67 x 104 cm. Provenance: Private Collection, UK. Note: The present watercolour, typical of Kaisermann's style, displays a picturesque scene of the Tivoli waterfalls, located approximately eighteen miles north-east of Rome. Kaisermann moved to Rome in 1789 to work as an assistant to Abraham-Louis-Rodolphe Ducros. This relationship soon ended and Kaisermann went on to work for Pauline Bonaparte and her husband Prince Camillo Borghese. During this period he produced a number of his Roman-inspired views, many to the commercial taste of the English and German travellers of the Grand Tour. The artist returned to the subject of Tivoli many times over his career, and it was clearly close to his heart. See, for example, his watercolours at Christie’s, New York, 28 Jan. 2000, lot 77, and at Sotheby’s, London, 9 March 2007, lot 1057, both of which possess close similarities to the present work. For close comparison, although of a different subject, see the artist’s watercolour of the Grand Waterfalls of Ternini, of similar sized sheet, and housed in the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC [no. 2011.54.1]. The hand-coloured black border surrounding the present work is typical of the artist’s method. The treatment of the figures, foliage, water, and architecture, too, are entirely consistent with his style.