Robert Kummer
The Blue Grotto on Capri
Oil on cardboard. 30,5 x 38 cm.
Signed and dated lower right: R. Kummer. 1870.
Provenance
South German collection.
Literature
Elisabeth Nüdling: Carl Robert Kummer (1810-1889). Ein Dresdner Landschaftsmaler zwischen Romantik und Realismus, Petersberg 2008, p. 262, no. 275.
During a stay in Naples in the spring of 1835, Robert Kummer visited the Blue Grotto on Capri together with his artist friends Heinrich Jakob Fried (1802-1870) and Friedrich Eduard Pape (1817-1905); in the present small painting, he probably still drew on sketches from that time decades later.
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