Lieven Cruyl (1640-c. 1720)

A View of Tivoli with the Temple of the Sybil

Details

Lieven Cruyl (1640-c. 1720)
A View of Tivoli with the Temple of the Sybil
signed with initials 'L.C.:'
black chalk, pen and grey ink, brown wash, inscribed circle, on vellum, framed
107 x 109 mm.

Literature

B. Jatta, Lievin Cruyl e la sua opera grafica: un artista fiammingo nell' Italia del Seicento, Brussels Rome, 1992, p. 140, no. 94, fig. 115.

Lot Essay

In the 1660s to 1680s, Cruyl travelled to Italy several times recording his impressions in drawings, often in series. The present lot was presumably part of a series of ten drawings, Jatta, op.cit., nos. 283-92, figs. 109-118. Cruyl's comparable view of Tivoli, Jatta, op.cit., no. 39, fig. 130, shows differences in the architecture, and may have been inspired by the present lot.

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