id: 157334 accession number: 1994.198 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1994.198 updated: 2024-04-04 11:13:07.288000 A View of Naples through a Window, 1824. Franz Ludwig Catel (German, 1778–1856). Oil on paper, mounted on canvas; framed: 59.5 x 46 x 5.5 cm (23 7/16 x 18 1/8 x 2 3/16 in.); unframed: 46.8 x 33.5 cm (18 7/16 x 13 3/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund 1994.198 title: A View of Naples through a Window title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1824 creation date earliest: 1824 creation date latest: 1824 current location: creditline: Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund copyright: --- culture: Germany, 19th century technique: oil on paper, mounted on canvas department: Modern European Painting and Sculpture collection: Mod Euro - Painting 1800-1960 type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Franz Ludwig Catel (German, 1778–1856) - artist Catel grew up in a French Huguenot family in Berlin and as a youth assisted in carving wooden figures at his father's toy store. After attending the Berlin academy and making watercolors and book illustrations, he went to Paris in 1807 where he studied oil painting at the École des Beaux-Arts until leaving for Rome in 1811. There he befriended neoclassicist landscape painter Joseph Anton Koch (1768-1839), mythological painter Jakob Asmus Carstens (1754-1798), and the group of German paint-ers called the Nazarenes. Catel's own work mostly consisted of landscape panoramas and Neapolitan folk scenes. Such paintings were highly sought after by the many foreign travelers who came to Italy, and Catel's fame and fortune grew considerably. In 1814 he married Margherita Prunetti, and by 1825 they could afford to live on Piazza di Spagna, where he entertained many artists and visitors. Catel also belonged to a group of artists who gathered around Crown Prince Ludwig I of Bavaria (1786-1868), who frequently visited Rome and who strongly supported the arts. In 1824 Catel portrayed this group at a joyful gathering in Crown Prince Ludwig in the Spanish Tavern in Rome (Neue Pinakothek, Munich). It included, among others, architect Leo von Klenze (1784-1864), sculptor Bertel Thorvaldsen (1768-1844), and painter Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld (1794-1844). In 1813 Catel had accompanied the French archaeologist Aubin Louis Millin (1759-1818) to Pompeii in order to make drawings. After that Catel traveled south on various occasions; in 1818 he visited Sicily, and in 1824 he joined architect and painter Karl Friedrich Schinkel (1781-1841) on a trip to Naples. Prince Heinrich of Prussia commissioned one of his few history paintings in 1834, Christ's Resurrection, for the Luisenkirche in Charlottenburg. His comfortable financial situation allowed him to support struggling artists, and he organized exhibitions of German artists in Rome. Long after his death this generosity still survives in his founda-tion Pio Istituto Catel, which supports German and Italian artists. --- measurements: Framed: 59.5 x 46 x 5.5 cm (23 7/16 x 18 1/8 x 2 3/16 in.); Unframed: 46.8 x 33.5 cm (18 7/16 x 13 3/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: In the Light of Italy: Corot and Early Plein-air Painting opening date: 1996-05-26T00:00:00 In the Light of Italy: Corot and Early Plein-air Painting. National Gallery of Art (May 26-September 2, 1996); The Brooklyn Museum (October 11, 1996-January 12, 1997); Saint Louis Art Museum (February 21-May 18, 1997). title: Paysages d'Italie. Les peintres du plein air 1780-1830 opening date: 2001-04-03T00:00:00 Paysages d'Italie. Les peintres du plein air 1780-1830. Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, 75008 Paris, France (April 3-July 9, 2001). title: "un paese incantato" Italia dipinta da Thomas Jones a Corot opening date: 2001-09-01T00:00:00 "un paese incantato" Italia dipinta da Thomas Jones a Corot. Museo Civico di Palazzo Te, Mantua, Italy (September 1-December 9, 2001). title: Rooms with Views: The Open Window in the 19th Century opening date: 2011-03-28T00:00:00 Rooms with Views: The Open Window in the 19th Century. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (organizer) (March 28-July 4, 2011). title: The Last Days of Pompeii: Decadence, Apocalypse, Resurrection opening date: 2012-09-03T00:00:00 The Last Days of Pompeii: Decadence, Apocalypse, Resurrection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 24-July 7, 2013). title: Stories From Storage opening date: 2021-02-07T05:00:00 Stories From Storage. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 7-May 16, 2021). title: Napoli Ottocento opening date: 2024-03-26T04:00:00 Napoli Ottocento. Scuderie del Quirinale, Rome, Italy (organizer) (March 26-June 16, 2024). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': 'Paris: Galeries nationales du Grand Palais (4/3 - 7/9/01); Mantova, Italy: Palazzo Te (9/1 - 12/16/01) "Paysages d\'Italie. Les peintres du plein air (1780-1830), exh. cat. no. 155, pp 254-255.', 'opening_date': '2001-07-09T00:00:00'} --- PROVENANCE Robert Manning collection, U.S., attributed to Antonie Pitloo (1791-1837). Simon Dickinson, Ltd., New York and London. Danny Katz, Ltd., London. Purchased by the cma in 1994. date: footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Boetticher, Friedrich von. Malerwerke des Neunzehnten Jahrhunderts: Beitrag zur Kunstgeschichte. Hofheim am Taunus: H. Schmidt & C. Günther, Minden, Germany: 1974. page number: Reproduced: p. 173-175, vol. 1 url: Cleveland Museum of Art, “New Acquisitions Enter the Cleveland Museum of Art’s Permanent Collection,” February 14, 1995, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives. page number: url: https://archive.org/details/cmapr3939/page/n1 Di Maio, Elena. Franz Ludwig Catel e i suoi amici a Roma: un album di disegni dell'Ottocento : Galleria nazionale d'arte moderna, 25 ottobre 1996-26 gennaio 1997. Torino, Italy: Sacs, 1996. page number: url: Conisbee, Philip, Sarah Faunce, and Jeremy Strick. In the Light of Italy: Corot and Early Open-Air Painting. Washington DC: National Gallery of Art, 1996. page number: Reproduced: p. 6 cat. 79 (detail). p. 209, cat. 79 url: Di Maio, Elena. Franz Ludwig Catel e i suoi amici a Roma: un album di disegni dell'Ottocento : Galleria nazionale d'arte moderna, 25 ottobre 1996-26 gennaio 1997. Torino, Italy: 1996. page number: url: Argencourt, Louise d', and Roger Diederen. Catalogue of Paintings. Pt. 4. European Paintings of the 19th Century. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1974. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 108-111, Vol. I, no. 41 url: Ottani Cavina, Anna. Paysages d'Italie: les peintres du plein air, 1780-1830 : Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Paris, 3 avril-9 juillet 2001 ; Centro Internazionale d'Arte e di Cultura di Palazzo Te, Mantoue, 1er septembre-16 décembre 2001. Paris, France: Réunion des musées nationaux, 2001. page number: Reproduced: p. 155; Mentioned: p. 254-255 url: Stendhal, and Philippe Berthier. Voyages en Italie: illustrés par les peintres du Romantisme. Paris, France: D. de Selliers, 2002. page number: Reproduced: p, 223; Mentioned: p. 222-223 url: Susinno, Stefano, Sandra Pinto, Liliana Barroero, Fernando Mazzocca, Giovanna Capitelli, and Matteo Lafranconi. Maestà di Roma: da Napoleone all'unità d'Italia. Milano, Italy: Electa, 2003. N6920 . page number: Reproduced: p. 287, fig. 134a url: Rewald, Sabine. Rooms with a View: The Open Window in the 19th Century. New York, NY: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2011. page number: Reproduced: p. 58, fig. 16 url: Stolzenburg, Andreas.Hubertus Gassner, and Markus Bertsch. Franz Ludwig Catel: Italienbilder der Romantik. Hamburg, Germany: Hamburger Kunsthalle, 2015. page number: url: Sontgen, Beate. "Innen und Aussen: Interieur-Vorhange in der Malerei um 1900." In Hinter dem Vorhang: Verhüllung und Enthüllung seit der Renaissance - von Tizian bis Christo. Oskar Bätschmann, et.al., 226-235. München: Hirmer : Düsseldorf: Museum Kunstpalast, 2016. page number: Reproduced: p. 226, fig. 1 url: Caputo, Rosario. La pittura napoletana del primo Ottocento.
Sorrento (Napoli) : Franco Di Mauro editore, 2021. page number: Reproduced: p. 108 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1994.198/1994.198_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1994.198/1994.198_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1994.198/1994.198_full.tif