GUSTAF WILHELM PALM. Fishermen making nets, Naples.

Pencil and watercolour on paper, 21 x 26 cm, including frame 39 x 43 cm. Signed G.W (with a palm tree) and dated Naples, September 13, 1841.

Palm was in Italy between 1841-1851 where he resided in Rome. Shortly after his arrival in Rome on 7 August 1841, he took off on a two month long journey to Naples. He stayed in Naples for a week and then went to Capri where he remained for a fortnight. From Capri he took a boat to Sorrento a Castellammare. På september han var i Naples, hvor han til den. After a week in Pompeii he returned to Rome.

A grey wash drawing by Palm in Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, “Harbour in Naples”, 22.5 x 57 cm. (NMH 1295/1924), is dated on the same day as the present work. Another work by Palm in Nationalmuseum, in watercolor, 14 x 23 cm. drawn in Capri 21 August, also depicts fishing boats on the shore (NM 865/1924) (G. Lindgren, Landscape painter G. W. Palm 1810-1890, 1934, p. 83).