Attributed to Herman van Swanevelt

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Attributed to Herman van Swanevelt

1603-1655

Tivoli (212). Verso: View of a Bridge (213); Landscape with Catacombs (214)

Pen and brown ink and wash, with opaque white, over black chalk, on paper; framing line in brown ink.

15 3/4 x 18 15/16 inches (399 x 481 mm)

Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.

III, 212

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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.

Inscription:

Inscribed on the old mount in brown ink, "No. 597".
Watermark: Kneeling figure (saint) holding a cross, within a shield.

Provenance:

Adolphus Frederick, Duke of Cambridge (Lugt 118); by descent to his son George William; probably their sale, London, Sotheby's, 28 November 1904; Charles Fairfax Murray (1849-1919), London and Florence; from whom purchased through Galerie Alexandre Imbert, Rome, in 1909 by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), New York (no mark; see Lugt 1509); his son, J.P. Morgan, Jr. (1867-1943), New York.

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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.

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.

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