Jan Frans van Bloemen known as the Horizon (attributed... Lot n° 241

Jan Frans van Bloemen known as the Horizon (attributed to) (Antwerp 1662-Rome 1749) View of the side staircase of the Capitoline Hill with the arch of Septimius Severus oil on canvas 48x68 cm - framed 60x80 cm Our painting is a version with small variations and in a smaller format of a canvas published by Busiri Vici in his monograph on van Bloemen and kept in the collections of the Museum der bildenden Künste in Leipzig (Inv. 1657). Reference bibliography: A. Busiri Vici, Jan Frans Van Bloemen Horizon and the origin of the eighteenth-century Roman landscape, Ugo Bozzi Editori, Rome 1974, fig. 350.