Jan Bruegel

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Jan Bruegel
1568-1625
A View of the Tiber in Rome with the Ponte Sisto and Saint Peter's in the Distance
ca. 1594
Pen and brown ink and wash and blue watercolor over black chalk.
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
Thaw Collection.
2017.20
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Watermark: none.

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Inscribed at upper right corner, in pen and ink, "Paolo Veronese".

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Unidentified collector's mark upper right; anonymous sale, New York, Sotheby's, 3 June 1981, lot 124; private collection, New York; Bob P. Haboldt & Co.; Eugene V. and Clare E. Thaw, New York.
Associated names: 

Thaw, Eugene Victor, 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 Bruegel: 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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