Luca Carlevaris, Lot n° 468

PORT VEDUTE WITH SAILSHIPS, MURALTURN AND PERSONSTAFFAGE Oil on canvas. 89.4 x 114 cm. Monogrammed on a luggage bale at the lower right in the picture "L.C.". The painting is accompanied by a copy of an extensively documented expertise by Prof. Giancarlo Sestieri of 3 February 2020, Rome. Comparative examples are mentioned, such as the painting "Paesaggio con Porto di Mare", which is in the Accademia Carrara in Bergamo, or "Porto di Mare" in a private collection in Padua, but also Calevari's work "Pasesaggio con Monumento et Arco Romano", owned by the Credito Artigiano di Milano, and "Porto con Ponte et torre" in the same collection. Finally, the expert's report also includes the painting "Veduta con Porto Fortificato et Arsenale" from the Banca Del Friuli collection (1998 catalogue, pp. 108-126). The expert report places the origin of the painting in the early 1990s of the 17th century. According to the enclosed expert report, the painting is unpublished, but is planned for the catalogue. The large-format painting can be placed in an extensive series of landscapes and harbour views that the master created at the end of the 17th and beginning of the 18th century. Whether his harbour views are also the result of a journey to Rome cannot be said with certainty, as Giovanni A. Moschini mentioned one in 1806, but it has not yet been documented. The painting gives an almost stage-like illuminated view of the harbour in the foreground, the pier built of stones in front of a high wall tower with battlements in the middle ground and the calm sea surface in bright blue in which the three ships with masts and sails are reflected, against the background of a cloudy sky, illuminated from the right in late light. Elements framing the view are the repoussoir trees on the left, and somewhat lower on the right of the picture. On the stage level, almost in the centre, a group of people with a young man with a feather turban, red cloak and la