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Attributed to Gaspar van Wittel
1652 or 1653-1736
Landscape with Ruined Bridge in Foreground
Pen and brown ink, brown and gray wash, with opaque white, on brown-gray paper.
15 5/16 x 10 3/4 inches (414 x 272 mm)
Gift of Paul Horgan.
1974.37
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Inscription:
Inscribed at lower center of decorated mount, in brown ink, "Sal Rosa"; and at upper right, in graphite, "47".
Provenance:
Unidentified collector's mark (gothic B); Dr. C.R. Rudolf (1884-1974), London (Lugt S. 2811b); Charles E. Slatkin Galleries, New York; Paul Horgan.
Bibliography:
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Seventeenth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1972-1974. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1976, p. 184-185.
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Watermark: none visible through lining.
Associated names:
Rudolf, C. R. (C. Robert), former owner.
Horgan, Paul, 1903-1995, former owner.
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