Landscape with figures and cave
Carlo Bonavia
(Rome (?) C. 1700 – Naples, post 1788)
- Brush and grey watercolour, pen and brown ink. Old mount.
- 256mm × 329mm
A pupil in Rome of the French artist Claude Joseph Vernet (1714-1789), Bonavia was a prolific and
sensitive landscape painter, much appreciated by the international clients of his time.
Literature Show/Hide
William George Constable, Carlo Bonavia, “Art Quarterly”, 12, 1959, pp. 19-44