The Falls of Tivoli (The Weir on the Po)

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The Falls of Tivoli (The Weir on the Po)
The Falls of Tivoli (The Weir on the Po)
The Falls of Tivoli (The Weir on the Po)
Photograph courtesy of Mallams Fine Art Auctioneers Oxford
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Artist
Ascribed to Wilson
Title
The Falls of Tivoli (The Weir on the Po)
Medium
Oil on panel
Dimensions
Metric: 22.9 cm diameter
Imperial: 9 in. diameter
Collection
Private Collection, England
Wilson Online Reference
P197C
Provenance
Earl of Haddington; Sotheby's 18 June 1952 (53, bt Agnew). with Agnews [...] Mallams Oxford, 10 June 2005 (351)
Versions
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Critical commentary
At least six painted versions are known, plus two drawings. The titles of all the versions derive from the inscription on the back of P197 (Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford). They seem to be based on the composition of A Waterfall by Gaspard Dughet, then owned by the dealer and collector Dr Robert Bragge (1700-1777), engraved by Lois Granville (fl. 1741-1757) in reverse and published by Knapton in 1741. P197C and other versions are examples of only three painted roundel compositions by or ascribed to Wilson and as Anne French has noted, suggest that he had a particular prototype in mind. (The others are the larger P18 & P19 presented to the Foundling Hospital in 1746). While in Italy, however, he made a few smaller circular drawings, e.g. D242 Pastoral Landscape with Tower, Rijkmuseum Amsterdam.
Bibliography
WGC, p. 211, pl. 98a (version 1); A. French, Gaspard Dughet called Gaspard Poussin 1615-75, exh. cat., Kenwood, London, 1980, pp. 88-89 (73); Solkin 1981, p. 414, n. 21.
Link to WG Constable Archive Record