Art Institute of Chicago
The Gulf of Salerno
Joseph Wright of Derby (English, 1734-1797)LinkedCulture matchlcp-65dad0c9788c
- Date
- 1783–85
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Culture
- England
- Department
- Painting and Sculpture of Europe
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Object ID
- 180711
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- Credit line
- L.L. and A.S. Coburn, Josephine and John I. Louis, Jr., and Alexander A. McKay Endowments; through prior acquisition of the Charles H. and Mary F.S. Worcester Endowment
- Provenance
- Probably John Holland, Ford Hall, Derbyshire [a "Sun Set in the Bay of Salerno" listed in Wright's Account Book about 1783 as the companion to Bacon's Moonlight Vesuvius and "sold to my friend Holland"; see Judy Egerton, Wright of Derby, exhib. cat. Tate Gallery, Louvre, and Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1990, p. 180, under no. 109]. Private collection, England, by family descent to a collector in New York, c. 1992 [information kindly supplied by Piers Davies, Christie’s]; sold Christie's, New York, 24 January, 2003, no. 140 to Simon Dickinson, London; sold to the Art Institute.
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- Object type
- AAT300033618
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