Gaspar van Wittel
1652 or 1653-1736
View of the Roman Campagna. Verso: View of a Dutch town
10 3/4 x 16 1/4 inches (273 x 412 mm)
Pen and brown ink, gray wash, on paper; verso: pen and brown ink, over graphite.
1981.105
Gift of Janos Scholz.
Notes
Watermark: none.
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed at lower right, in brown ink, "Gasparo VanWittel. 5". On the verso, at lower right, in same (?) hand as on the recto, in brown ink, "Gasparo van Vittel"; at upper right corner (upside down), in Esdaile's hand, in brown ink, "Formerly in the coll. of S Jos. Reynolds / WE (erased) P 116 ("7" superimposed over the "6")".
Associated names
Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723-1792, former owner.
Esdaile, William, 1758-1837, former owner.
Scholz, János, former owner.
Esdaile, William, 1758-1837, former owner.
Scholz, János, former owner.
Bibliography
In the Shadow of Vesuvius : Neapolitan Drawings from the Collection of Janos Scholz. New York : Finch College Museum of Art, 1969, no. 34, repr.
Scholz, Janos. Italian Master Drawings, 1350-1800, from the Janos Scholz Collection. New York : Dover, 1976, no. 124, repr.
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Twentieth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1981-1983. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1984, p. 315.
Jane Shoaf Turner, with contributions by Felice Stampfle, Dutch Drawings in the Pierpont Morgan Library: Seventeenth to Nineteenth Centuries, New York, 2006, cat. no. 341.
Scholz, Janos. Italian Master Drawings, 1350-1800, from the Janos Scholz Collection. New York : Dover, 1976, no. 124, repr.
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Twentieth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1981-1983. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1984, p. 315.
Jane Shoaf Turner, with contributions by Felice Stampfle, Dutch Drawings in the Pierpont Morgan Library: Seventeenth to Nineteenth Centuries, New York, 2006, cat. no. 341.
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Century Drawings
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