Lot 159: DANIËL DUPRÉ AMSTERDAM 1751 - 1817

inscribed verso: à Sorrento

pen and grey ink and wash over black chalk within black ink framing lines

476 by 395mm

Kleur en Raffinement, Tekeningen uit de Unicorno Collectie, Amsterdam, Museum Het Rembrandthuis and Dordrecht, Dordrechts Museum, 1994-5, cat. no. 61.

Grenzeloos Goed, Tekeningen uit de Unicorno Collectie, exhibition catalogue, The Hague, Haags Historisch Museum, 2001, p. 121, reproduced fig. 62.1.

Professor Dr. I.Q. van Regteren Altena, Amsterdam;
Saam and Lily Nijstad, The Hague (Inv.nr. N243)

Following earlier journeys to Switzerland and down the Rhine, Dupré travelled to Italy in 1786, funded by a scholarship that he had been awarded by a Haarlem learned society. He remained there for some five years, and made numerous drawings of Italian cities, monuments and above all landscapes. See also the following three lots. The presence in this drawing of a party of picnickers is testament to the thriving tourist trade that Sorrento, a little to the south of Naples, already enjoyed by the late 18^th century.