Hendrik van Cleef
1525-1589
View of the Pantheon (Santa Maria Rotunda), Rome, from a Point above the Via dei Colonnelle
17 1/8 x 23 3/8 inches (434 x 593 mm)
Pen and brown ink, red-brown, and blue watercolor, over black chalk, brown, on paper.
1969.3
Gift of a Fellow in honor of Frederick B. Adams, Jr., on the occasion of his retirement as Director of the Library.
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Watermark: horizontal band and three crosses within a shield (cf. Heawood 510: Antwerp, 1579). Watermark, beta radiograph. crosses, shield. 144209wm_1969_3_WM_beta.jpg
Inscriptions/Markings
Signed on the architrave of the Pantheon, with monogram and with the lowercase letters "h" and "c", in brown ink; inscribed at lower left, by the artist, in brown ink, "S. Maria Rotonda Romae"; at lower center, in a later hand, in a different brown ink, "Henr. van cleef". On verso, at upper left corner, in an old hand, in red chalk, "[No] 424" ["o" in superscript]; below, in another old hand, in graphite, "St. Maria Rotonda..." in brown ink, "86th"; at upper right corner, in brown ink, "No 4" ["o" in superscript]; at lower left, in graphite, "721".
Associated names
Harewood, George Henry Hubert Lascelles, Earl of, 1923-2011, former owner.
Bibliography
Stampfle, Felice, with the assistance of Ruth S. Kraemer and Jane Shoaf Turner. Netherlandish Drawings of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries and Flemish Drawings of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries in the Pierpont Morgan Library. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1991, p. 28, no. 49, repr.
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Sixteenth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1969-1971. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1973, p.88-89, III.
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Sixteenth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1969-1971. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1973, p.88-89, III.
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