Provenance: Private Collection, Rome, 1967
Literature: A. Rizzi, Disegni, incisioni e bozzetti del Carlevarijs, exh. cat., Rome, 1964, ill. pl. XXII
A. Rizzi, Carlevarijs, Venice, 1967, p. 94, ill. pl. 90
D. Succi, Carlevarijs, Gorizia, 2015, p. 290, cat. no. 146, ill.
Notes: In his 1967 catalogue entry for the work, Rizzi suggests a date of circa 1712 for the present work given the close compositional similarities with the Landscape with architecture now in the Museo Civico, Vicenza, which is signed and dated 1712. Carlevarijs has used elements from this latter picture in the A coastal inlet with horseman crossing a bridge in the foreground shipping at anchor in the distance such as the double arched bridge with the wall curving round into the foreground and the horseman riding with his arm outstretched and a second horse alongside.
Whilst perhaps best known for depictions of the city of Venice and his formative role in the development of vedutepainting in Venice, Carlevarijs also executed many works of capricci. His very earliest works consist largely of this genre and it was a theme he returned to throughout his career. The present work fits in to a group he painted in the early 1710s such as the aforementioned capriccio of 1712 in Vicenza and his Veduta d'un porto and the Rovine Romane both in a private collection in Rome and dated 1713. These paintings all reveal a growing confidence in the depiction of the figures within landscapes which are more expansive than his earlier models.
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