The Market – San Remo, Italy
Signed lower right: JANE PETERSON
Description
In The Market – San Remo, Italy, Jane Peterson found an appealing subject among the age-old buildings surrounding quaint Piazza Eroi Sanremesi, with the bell tower of San Siro Cathedral, the oldest house of worship in the town, rising overhead. The fountain at right was created between 1827 and 1831 through the efforts of then mayor Siro Andrea Carli, and served as a main gathering spot for generations due to its centralized location and its proximity to the open-air markets of Piazza Mercato to the north. Peterson’s composition shows the fountain with a plain rounded plinth in the middle; today it bears a statue of Carli that was carved in the late 1880s and placed in several spots around the piazza for decades before finally being installed onto the fountain in the early 1960s.
Provenance
Private collection, Palm Beach, Florida
To private collection, Newburyport, Massachusetts
Inscriptions
(verso of paper in pencil) The Market – San Remo
Labels
Exhibitions
Literature
Condition
Very good. The painting was recently conserved, during which the watercolor sheet was removed from a foam core board to which it had been dry mounted, and the dry mount adhesive was removed from the verso along with glue residue, which was greatly reduced. Masking tape along the bottom margin was removed, and minor surface soils and occasional glue residue on the recto were removed. Stains along the margins, likely from an old mat, were slightly reduced but remain. Lastly, the work was deacidified.
Frame Details
Description
In The Market – San Remo, Italy, Jane Peterson found an appealing subject among the age-old buildings surrounding quaint Piazza Eroi Sanremesi, with the bell tower of San Siro Cathedral, the oldest house of worship in the town, rising overhead. The fountain at right was created between 1827 and 1831 through the efforts of then mayor Siro Andrea Carli, and served as a main gathering spot for generations due to its centralized location and its proximity to the open-air markets of Piazza Mercato to the north. Peterson’s composition shows the fountain with a plain rounded plinth in the middle; today it bears a statue of Carli that was carved in the late 1880s and placed in several spots around the piazza for decades before finally being installed onto the fountain in the early 1960s.
Provenance
Private collection, Palm Beach, Florida
To private collection, Newburyport, Massachusetts
Inscriptions
(verso of paper in pencil) The Market – San Remo
Labels
Exhibitions
Literature
Condition
Very good. The painting was recently conserved, during which the watercolor sheet was removed from a foam core board to which it had been dry mounted, and the dry mount adhesive was removed from the verso along with glue residue, which was greatly reduced. Masking tape along the bottom margin was removed, and minor surface soils and occasional glue residue on the recto were removed. Stains along the margins, likely from an old mat, were slightly reduced but remain. Lastly, the work was deacidified.
