A capriccio with figures beneath a Doric colonnade, a bay and the Torre di San Vincenzo, Naples beyond

We are grateful to Prof. David R. Marshall for confirming the attribution to Viviano Codazzi and Adriaen van der Cabel, on the basis of photographs (private communication, 1 October 2008).

He dates this painting to the 1660s, relating it to a group of collaborative works of this subject (see D.R. Marshall, Viviano and Niccolò Codazzi, Milan, 1993, pp. 290-99, nos. VC166, VC167 and VC170). In this view van der Cabel appears to have had a greater degree of involvement in the landscape than usual, filling out the painting around Codazzi's architecture.