Flemish School
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Flemish School
16th century
Landscape with View of Colosseum
Pen and brown ink with brown and gray wash and black chalk on laid paper.
5 1/2 x 17 3/16 inches (140 x 436 mm)
The Joseph F. McCrindle Collection.
2009.342
Provenance:
Joseph F. McCrindle, New York (McCrindle collection no. A1336).
Summary:
Formerly attributed to Willem van Nieulandt, who was a student of Paul Bril's in Rome, this anonymous, panoramic vedute depicts the colosseum in ruins. At the right side of the sheet, small figures admire it. The forum with the Temple of Venus and Roma is lightly delineated in the background.
Associated names:
McCrindle, Joseph F., former owner.
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