Neapolitan School, 17th
century Return from fishing in the Gulf of Naples overlooking Vesuvius
Oil on canvas, rebound
38.5 x 58 cm

This scene is a contrasting testimony to the eruption of Vesuvius, with its threatening plume of smoke in the background. It is probably the eruption of 1631 that devastated the entire coastline and in particular Portici and Torre del Greco, from which the scene seems to originate.