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The Boschetto at the Villa Muti at Frascati

image © Guy Peppiatt Fine Art | All Rights Reserved

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Date

1832

Artist

Thomas Hartley Cromek (1809-1873)

Collection

Guy Peppiatt Fine Art

Description

Watercolour over pencil heightened with touches of bodycolour. The Villa Muti is located to the south-west of Frascati, which is 15 miles south-east of Rome. It was originally built by Ludovico Cerasoli in 1579 and was then acquired by Cardinal Pompeo Arrigoni in 1595. It passed through the Cesarini and Amadei families before being acquired by the Muti family in the nineteenth century. The villa was used as a country residence by Henry Stuart (1725-1807), the final Jacobite heir to claim the throne of England and Scotland, who lived in exile in Rome. He was visited there by Pope Pius VII between 1802 and 1805. By 1830, the villa was being rented by the keen amateur artist Robert Henry Cheney (1801-1866) who was a friend and pupil of Cromek. Views of the Villa Muti by Cheney were sold from the Cheney family collection at Christie's on 12th October 2005, lots 37 and 38.

The grounds of the villa has formal English gardens dotted with Mannerist sculpture while the villa itself contains frescoes by Lanfranco, Pietro da Cortona, Cigoli and Passignano and now belongs to the local `Comune di Grottoferrata.'

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image © Guy Peppiatt Fine Art

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Villa Muti, Frascati, Italy

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