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GIUSEPPE MARIA TERRENI (LIVORNO
1739-1811)
A view of the Bosphorus with Istanbul and
the Galata tower in the background
signed and inscribed ‘View of the Dock Yard at
Constantinople with Galata, Pera Nother Suburbs,
Scutari &. Terreni pinx.t’ (on a strip of paper
attached at bottom)
watercolor and bodycolor
14æ x 24 in. (37.5 x 61 cm)
$4,000-6,000
PROVENANCE:
Anonymous sale; Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 10
December 1998, lot 8 (as Antonio Terreni).

Giuseppe Maria Terreni was renowned for
the fresco decorations that once adorned the
chapels of his hometown Livorno, most of them
destroyed during the Second World War. His
numerous views such as the present one reflect
the influence of artists like Giuseppe Zocchi and
Jacob Philipp Hackert. Another version of the
view offered here was in the David Ker collection
(Christie’s, South Kensington, 5 November 2015,
part of lot 124), while the Victoria and Albert
Museum owns a closely comparable watercolor,
a View of the entrance to the Black Sea from the
Thracian Bosphorus taken from Keretch Bournu
(inv. SD 1037), which is titled and signed on a
label pasted onto a mount very similar to that of
the Durand drawing.

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LUIGI MAYER (1755-1803)
View of the Dardanelles
watercolor and bodycolor
13¬ x 21¿ in. (34.6 x 53.8 cm)
$4,000-6,000

After training in Rome with Giovanni Battista
Piranesi, Luigi Mayer traveled to the Eastern
Mediterranean with Sir Robert Ainslie, British
ambassador to Constantinople. Mayer created
a large number of watercolors depicting the
sites they visited. A very similar view of the
Dardanelles, with only some minor differences
from the present composition, is at the Victoria
and Albert Museum in London (inv. SD.656).

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