A Landscape with Figures by a Bridge and Classical Ruins

GIOVANNI BATTISTA INNOCENZO COLOMBO

1717-1793

Swiss School

 A Landscape with Figures by a Bridge and Classical Ruins

Oil on canvas

43.2 x 53.3 cms

17 x 21 inches

Giovanni Battista Innocenzo Colombo began his career in his home-town of Arogno near Lugano in Switzerland.

His training was as the pupil of his uncle Luca Antonio Colombo, who was in turn a pupil of his father, the architectural painter Giovanni Battista Colombo, born in 1638.

Colombo travelled extensively in Italy, Poland, Austria and Germany and other European countries. He decorated numerous royal theatres in Italy and Germany and his most famous commission was the work done on the ceiling of the Royal Opera of Ludwigsburg.

Colombo also executed numerous landscapes and became particularly proficient in this field.

Rarely on the market, recent sales of works by this artist have commanded very high prices