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Franz Ludwig Catel

A View of Naples through a Window

1824
oil on paper, mounted on canvas
46.8 × 33.5 cm (18.4 × 13.2 in)

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Mount Vesuvius was almost continuously active at the time that Franz Ludwig Catel visited Naples, and erupted just two years before this painting was completed.

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