Gaspar van Wittel Works Online
Categorized & Annotated
Commercial Galleries: Galleries: We invite you to register and list your site (no charge for this service)
Original works by Gaspar van Wittel available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
 Kunsthistorisches Museum Databank, Vienna (in German) 
Louvre Museum Graphic Art Database, Paris (in French)
Gaspar van Wittel at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City 
Gaspar van Wittel at the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Great scans of Rijksmuseum paintings, from the 'Memory of the Netherlands' project
Rijksmuseum Research Database, Amsterdam (in Dutch)
Compton Verney, Warwick, England
View of Posillipo with the Palazzo Donn'Anna, ca.1700-01
Courtauld Institute of Art, London, UK
7 works by or related to the artist
Gallerie di Palazzo Leoni Montanari, Vicenza, Italy
3 works online
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts
MacKenzie Art Gallery, Saskatchewan
Musée des Augustins, Toulouse, France
La Place Saint-Pierre a Rome
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen, France (in French)
Vue du château Saint-Ange à Rome
Museum Collection Database for the Region of Haute-Normandie, France
National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, UK
The Darsena delle Galere and Castello Nuovo at Naples, 1703
Palais Fesch Musée des Beaux-Arts, Ajaccio, France (in French)
State Museums of Florence Digital Archive, Italy
The Albertina Graphic Art Databank, Vienna (in German)
The Walters Art Museum, Maryland
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid
- to switch to English, scroll to the bottom of the page and click "English Version"
- images are zoomable; click on the "expand" icon below the detail image
Art Market:
(e.g. records of past sales at auction; sites providing examples of the artist's signature)
Artarchiv Sample Artist Symbols + Monograms
Scroll down to monogram 1166
Sotheby's Sold Lot Archive NEW!
(database goes as far back as 1998; images where permitted by copyright go about as far back as 2001)
Pictures from Image Archives:
Gaspar van Wittel in the Art Renewal Center
Google Art Project NEW!
Piazza Navona, Rome (Museo Thyssen - Bornemisza, Madrid)
Gaspar van Wittel in the Web Gallery of Art 
Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)
(a welcome screen is displayed for a couple of seconds before the search results appear)
Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)
Additional Image Search Tools: NEW!
(SafeSearch set to "strict"; go to Advanced Search (Flickr/Google) or Preferences (Bing) to change)
Articles and Reference Sites:
Grove Dictionary of Art Online (excerpt) 
Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.
Oxford Dictionary of Art (eNotes)
The London Evening Standard
"Vanvitelli brings the grandest souvenir", 2008 article by Brian Sewell
|
|
|
|
