The Bay of Naples with Vesuvius and Castel dell'Ovo

Private collection, Hamburg; sale, Lempertz, Cologne, November 15, 2003, no. 1592; [Thomas Le Claire, Hamburg, in 2004; sold to Thaw]; Eugene Victor Thaw, New York (until 2009)

Hamburger Kunsthalle. "Franz Ludwig Catel. Italienbilder der Romantik," October 16, 2015–January 31, 2016, no. 133 (as "Ansicht des Golfs von Neapel mit Blick auf das Castel dell’Ovo und den Vesuv von der Salita di Sant’Antonio aus," ca. 1818–19).

New York. Morgan Library & Museum. "Views of Rome and Naples: Oil Sketches from the Thaw Collection," August 15, 2017–March 18, 2018, no catalogue.

New York. Morgan Library & Museum. "Dawn till Dusk: Studies of Light in Marine Sketches," February 11–October 23, 2022, no catalogue.

Marcus Marschall and Thomas Le Claire. Romanticism and Nature: A Selection of 19th century paintings and oil sketches. Munich and Hamburg, 2004, pp. 14–15, ill. (color), date it about 1818–20.

Andreas Stolzenburg. Franz Ludwig Catel (1778–1856): paesaggista e pittore di genere. Exh. cat., Casa di Goethe. Rome, 2007, pp. 54, 57, 141 n. 224, fig. 31 (color), dates it 1818/19.

Todd Magreta in The Thaw Collection of Master Drawings: Acquisitions Since 2002. Exh. cat., Morgan Library & Museum. New York, 2009, pp. 84, 177 n. 3, mentions it in connection with a drawing depicting a similar view by Catel.

Esther Bell. "Catalogue Raisonné of the Thaw Collection." Studying Nature: Oil Sketches from the Thaw Collection. Ed. Jennifer Tonkovich. New York, 2011, p. 108, no. 19, ill. (color), calls it "The Bay of Naples with Vesuvius and Castel dell'Ovo" and dates it about 1818–20.

Andreas Stolzenburg in Franz Ludwig Catel: Italienbilder der Romantik. Ed. Andreas Stolzenburg and Hubertus Gassner. Exh. cat., Hamburger Kunsthalle. Hamburg, 2015, pp. 339–40, 449–50, no. 133, ill. p. 342 (color), compares it to Catel's "View of Naples with the Castel dell'Ovo and Vesuvius from the Salita di Sant'Antonio" (1818/22, private collection), "View of the Gulf of Naples with Castel dell'Ovo and Vesuvius" (private collection), and "View of Naples with the Castel dell'Ovo and Vesuvius from the Salita di Sant'Antonio" (1819/20, Bristol Collection, Ickworth); calls it a study for the Ickworth picture.

There are two known related compositions: The Gulf of Naples with Vesuvius Seen from Posilippo, 1819, oil on canvas, 29 1/2 x 39 3/4 in. (75 x 101 cm), private collection; and Neapolitan Fruit Merchant with His Family on the Salita di Sant'Antonio, with a View of the Gulf of Naples, 1822, oil on canvas, 8 7/8 x 12 1/4 in. (22 x 31 cm), Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Nationalgalerie, NG 54.