Attributed to Herman van Swanevelt
1603-1655
Tivoli (212). Verso: View of a Bridge (213); Landscape with Catacombs (214)
15 3/4 x 18 15/16 inches (399 x 481 mm)
Pen and brown ink and wash, with opaque white, over black chalk, on paper; framing line in brown ink.
III, 212
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
Notes
Formerly attributed to Bartholomeus Breenbergh.
The drawing is related to another view of the temple signed and dated 1627 by the artist in the E.B. Crocker Art Gallery, Sacramento.
The drawing is related to another view of the temple signed and dated 1627 by the artist in the E.B. Crocker Art Gallery, Sacramento.
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed on the old mount in brown ink, "No. 597".
Watermark: Kneeling figure (saint) holding a cross, within a shield.
Watermark: Kneeling figure (saint) holding a cross, within a shield.
Associated names
Breenbergh, Bartholomeus, 1599?-1657, Formerly attributed to.
Adolphus Frederick, Prince, Duke of Cambridge, 1774-1850, former owner.
George, Prince, Duke of Cambridge, 1819-1904, former owner.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, John Pierpont, 1837-1913, former owner.
Adolphus Frederick, Prince, Duke of Cambridge, 1774-1850, former owner.
George, Prince, Duke of Cambridge, 1819-1904, former owner.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, John Pierpont, 1837-1913, former owner.
Bibliography
Landscape drawings 1953, no. 62.
Jane Shoaf Turner, with contributions by Felice Stampfle, Dutch Drawings in the Pierpont Morgan Library: Seventeenth to Nineteenth Centuries, New York, 2006, cat. no. 286.
Jane Shoaf Turner, with contributions by Felice Stampfle, Dutch Drawings in the Pierpont Morgan Library: Seventeenth to Nineteenth Centuries, New York, 2006, cat. no. 286.
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Century Drawings
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