Jan Brueghel
1568-1625
A View of the Tiber in Rome with the Ponte Sisto and Saint Peter's in the Distance
ca. 1594
6 5/16 x 10 1/16 inches (160 x 256 mm); decorative frame 15 1/4 x 18 1/2 x 1 1/2 inches
Pen and brown ink and wash and blue watercolor over black chalk.
2017.20
Thaw Collection.
Notes
Watermark: none.
Son of Pieter Brueghel the Elder, Jan Brueghel became an inventive and highly successful artist in his own right. Early in his career, he spent several years in Italy, a period from which many drawings survive. This view of the Tiber employs his distinctive combination of brown and blue washes over pen lines and gives every appearance of having been sketched on the spot, though the washes were perhaps added later. The bridge--called the Ponte Sisto after Pope Sixtus IV, who commissioned it--was already over a century old at the time. The famous dome of St. Peter's just visible in the distance, however, had only recently been completed. -- Exhibition Label, from "Drawn to Greatness: Master Drawings from the Thaw Collection"
Son of Pieter Brueghel the Elder, Jan Brueghel became an inventive and highly successful artist in his own right. Early in his career, he spent several years in Italy, a period from which many drawings survive. This view of the Tiber employs his distinctive combination of brown and blue washes over pen lines and gives every appearance of having been sketched on the spot, though the washes were perhaps added later. The bridge--called the Ponte Sisto after Pope Sixtus IV, who commissioned it--was already over a century old at the time. The famous dome of St. Peter's just visible in the distance, however, had only recently been completed. -- Exhibition Label, from "Drawn to Greatness: Master Drawings from the Thaw Collection"
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed at upper right corner, in pen and ink, "Paolo Veronese".
Associated names
Thaw, Eugene Victor, former owner.
Thaw, Clare, former owner.
Thaw, Clare, former owner.
Bibliography
Thaw Catalogue Raisonné, 2017, no. 27, repr.
Denison, Cara D. et al. The Thaw Collection : Master Drawings and New Acquisitions. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1994, no. 11.
J. Hand, et al., "The Age of Brueghel: Netherlandish Drawings in the Sixteenth Century", 1986 (catalog of an exhibition held at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. and the Morgan Library), pages 89-90, no. 23 (reproduced)
M. Winner, "Vedute in Flemish Landscape Drawings of the 16th Century" in Netherlandish Mannerism, 1985, pages 87-89, no. 9 (reproduced)
Denison, Cara D. et al. The Thaw Collection : Master Drawings and New Acquisitions. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1994, no. 11.
J. Hand, et al., "The Age of Brueghel: Netherlandish Drawings in the Sixteenth Century", 1986 (catalog of an exhibition held at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. and the Morgan Library), pages 89-90, no. 23 (reproduced)
M. Winner, "Vedute in Flemish Landscape Drawings of the 16th Century" in Netherlandish Mannerism, 1985, pages 87-89, no. 9 (reproduced)
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