GASPAR VAN WITTEL (Dutch, 1652/53-1736)

Italian landscape
sepia ink & watercolor on paper
h. 8-1/4 w. 7 in., sight
overall: 18 x 16 in., framed
seaside landscape scene showing a man riding a horse down a road, with a cliff to his left, a village shown in the distance with boats on the water; signed with initials lower left "G:V:W" and with inscription in the clouds; framed with an old paper label on verso

aka Jasper Adriaensz van Wittel; Gaspare Vanvitelli; or Gasparo degli Occhiali
Provenance: Sale of June 1854 Cal. Woodburg;
descent through the family of a Greenwich, CT, Lady

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Condition Report: appears to be in good condition; not examined out of the frame