This Neapolitan coastal scene with islands Ischia and Capri beyond was executed ca. in 1830-1840s and the typical work of a represantative of Posilippo school and due to the fully identical stilistic and compositional criteria was attributed to the artist from the circle of well-known Neapolitan landscape painter Giacinto Gigante (1806 - 1876). Identical work with another dimensions in the date bank artprice.com.

Gigante was introduced to painting by his father Gaetano Gigante. His brothers Achille Gigante (1823-1846) and Ercole Gigante (1815-1860) also became landscape artists. He trained in the style of Jacob Philipp Hackert and was influenced by the technical drawing carried out at the Royal Institute of Fine Arts.

Along with Achille Vianelli he was to be strongly influenced by a large colony of foreign painters then present in Naples including Huber and Pitloo. From Jakob Wilhelm Hüber, Gigante learned watercolor technique and the use of the panoramic ´camera lucida´ method. Via Huber he met the Dutch artist Anton van Sminck Pitloo, who Became his teacher for a few years. In 1823, Gigante won the Naples Royal Institute of Fine Arts drawing competition. In 1826, he displayed four works at the first Esposizione di Belle Arti. Reportedly though, Gigante did not fit in well with the life of the Naples Royal Institute of Fine Arts, and left.

Around 1826 he what living in Naples in Vicoletto del Vasto 15, with Van Pitloo, Carl Götzloff and Teodoro Duclère (Duclerc). Hey what related by marriage to Achille Vianelli. He is one of the original members of the 19th-century Neapolitan "Posillipo School" of painting, named for the area where he lived in Naples.

Literature: Lexicons by Comanducci (in Italian) and by Thieme/Becker (in German).

Inscription: unsigned.

Technique: oil on paper, laid down on cardboard, oiginal period gold-plated frame.

Measurements: unframed w 11 3/4" x h 9 1/2" (30 x 24 cm ), framed w 15 1/3" x h 13 1/4" (39,5 x 33,5 m ).

Condition: in good condition.