(Munich 1851–1933 Malcesino/Lake Garda)
Rome, a View of the Pantheon, signed V. M. Herwegen, oil on canvas, 102 x 142 cm, framed

Provenance:
Nagel Stuttgart, 4 December 1993, lot 3291;
Christie’s London, 18 March 1994, lot 206;
European Private Collection;

Exhibited:
Munich, Königlicher Glaspalast, III. Internationale Kunstausstellung, 1888, no. 1229.

Catalogued and illustrated in:
Exhibition catalogue, III. Internationale Kunstausstellung, Munich, 1888, no. 1229, p. 55.

Veronica Maria Herwegen was born in Munich in 1851. Her father Peter Herwegen (1814-1893) was a designer and engraver who made engravings for the Universal Exhibition of 1854. After receiving her first drawing lessons from her father, Herwegen studied with Wilhelm von Lindenschmit, a painter of historical subjects. Her first major exhibition took place at the 1883 Munich international Art Exhibition. Specialised in architectural painting, she created several paintings set in Italy which were greatly admired. She exhibited regularly at the Munich International Art Exhibition in the Glass Palace until 1897. The present lot was exhibited in Munich and later in the Netherlands at the Amsterdam World’s Fair in 1883, as well as in London, where the great collector Henry Wallis acquired some of her works. After marrying the Italian writer Giovanni Manini in 1896, she left Munich and settled with her husband in the Italian town of Malcesine on Lake Garda.
The Pantheon in Rome is one of the artist’s finest paintings. It depicts the buzzing daily life in the Piazza della Rotonda: a boy selling citrus fruit, men enjoying a coffee and a religious procession celebrating Corpus Christi entering the basilica.