Antique Capriccio Oil Landscape all lighting created for patrons seeking interiors

created for patrons seeking interiors informed by classical education and travel

Marble and silk lining are original to the piece

Minor scratches to the marble

and gilt bronze mounts in the form of classical caryatids

and its original hanging extinguishing chains

Antique Capriccio Oil Landscape all lighting created for patrons seeking interiorsMonumental oil on canvas capriccio landscape, approximately 5 feet tall, painted in the Italianate tradition of Continental Europe, likely Italian or French school, late 19th to early 20th century. The composition is after the painting: Coastal View with Apollo and the Cumaean Sibyl by Claude Lorrain, whose idealized classical landscapes shaped European academic painting for centuries. In Lorrains original, Apollogod of light and reasonand the Cumaean