FRANZ KNEBEL II (1809-1877)

A VIEW OF THE COLOSSEUM AND ARCH OF TITUS, ROME
Signed & dated l.r. 1845
Watercolor with faint pencil underdrawing
24 x 35 cm
 
 
 
Knebel, of Swiss origins (born in La Sarraz), was the son of a landscape painter by the same name and was a nephew of Franz Kaisermann. He moved, with his father, to Rome when he was just a teenager, and he remained there for the rest of his career, painting numerous views of the city itself, the campagna and Tivoli, with the majority of his clientele being Grand Tourists.