Carlo Labruzzi (Italian, 1748-1817)
A view of Monte Circeo from the Temple of Venus, near Terracina, Lazio

watercolour over pencil
Unframed: 41.6 x 56.2 cm. (16 3/8 x 22 1/8 in.) Framed: 58.8 x 73.5 cm. (23 1/8 x 29 in.)

With John Manning, London (by 1974);
The Constable Family, Cambridge & Sherborn, Massachusetts, U.S.A.

Exhibited:
London, Manning Gallery, Carlo Labruzzi (1748-1817): An Exhibition of Fine Watercolour Drawings of the Appian Way, June-July 1960, no. 74 (as ‘View of Monte Circeo, probably from the Temple of Venus near Terracina’)

Carlo Labruzzo (1748-1817) was an Italian landscape painter born in Rome. In 1798, he was appointed professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Perugia, later becoming its director in 1812. He died in Perugia in December 1817 and was succeeded by Tommaso Minardi. His notable pupils included Silvestro Massari, Margherita Lazi, and Marianna Candidi Dionigi.