Neapolitan Landscape

1874. Oil on canvas.
Room C

This painting summarises many of Fortuny’s artistic concerns during his summer stay in Portici on the Neapolitan coast in a more complete manner than the other landscapes from this period in the Prado. It reveals his practice of working from life (here on the seashore for the first time), the use of pure colour, varied brushstrokes and the technique of leaving the preparation visible.

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Inventory number: P008265
Author: Mariano Fortuny
Title: Neapolitan Landscape
Date: 1874
Technique: Oil
Support: Canvas
Dimension: Height: 28.7 cm; Width: 44.2 cm
Provenance: Mariano Fortuny y Marsal, Rome, 1874; Cipriano Pagés; Fernando Rivière de Caralt, Barcelona; Miguel Gallardo Casanova, Barcelona, 1979; Subastas Ansorena, Madrid; acquired by the Museo Nacional del Prado with funds from the bequest of Carmen Sánchez García, 2017
Entry date: 2017

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Fortuny 1838-1874, Barcelona, 1979.

Gonzalez Lopez, C. Martí, M., Mariano Fortuny Marsal, II, Diccionario Rafols,, 1989, pp. 68 n p/2.04.74.

Fortuny., Ibercaja,, Zaragoza, 1998, pp. 210-211 nº 71.

Gutiérrez Márquez, Ana, 'Mariano Fortuny y Marsal. Paisaje napolitano', En: Fortuny (1838-1874), Museo Nacional del Prado,, 2017, pp. 326-328 n.108.

Gutiérrez Márquez, Ana, Mariano Fortuny y Marsal. Paisaje napolitano, Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, 2018, pp. 44-45.

Gutiérrez, Ana; Martínez, Pedro José, 'Mariano Fortuny y Marsal. Paisaje napolitano', El legado de Carmen Sánchez: "La última lección", Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, 2021, pp. 101-104 nº 14.