Giuseppe Laezza (Napoli 1835-1905)

(1835 - 1905)

Provenance: Naples, Galleria Vittoria Colonna

Exhibitions: Michele Cammarano (1835-1920), Galleria d'arte Vittoria Colonna, Naples, December 2008

Bibliography: Giuseppe Luigi Marini, The Value of Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Paintings, Allemandi, 2009-2010, ill. p. 497

Catalogue of Nineteenth-Century Italian Art, ill. no. 37, p. 292

Exhibition catalog, Michele Cammarano (1835-1920), pp. 48, 49

In the landscape presented here, Laezza demonstrates his customary mastery in combining direct observation of reality with a precise and romantic rendering of light, in line with the dictates of the Posillipo School and late-nineteenth-century Neapolitan landscape painting.