Italianate Houses on a Cliff

In his 1969 publication, Marcel Roethlisberger described this drawing as by Breenbergh, comparing it to two views at Mugnano, Italy, nos. 99 and 100 (loc. cit.). However, in a letter dated 30 November 1994, he revised his earlier opinion and proposed a convincing attribution to Jan Asselijn. A drawing of Italianate houses on a rise of comparable handling attributed to Asselijn is in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, D. Scrase, Das Goldene Jahrhundert, Holländische Meisterzeichnungen aus dem Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, exhib. catalogue, Munich Heidelberg Braunschweig Cambridge, 1995/6, no. 37. Another, with an old inscription 'Asselin', is in the Albertina, Vienna, M. Bisanz-Prakken, Die Landschaft im Jahrhundert Rembrandts, Niederländische Zeichnungen des 17. Jahrhunderts aus der Graphischen Sammlung Albertina, exhib. catalogue, Vienna, 1993, pp. 168-9, no. 90.