Travellers on horseback by a blacksmith with peasants and their cattle near the ruin of the Basilica of Constantine and the San Francesco Romana

Details

Pieter van Bloemen, called lo Stendardo (Antwerp 1657-1720)
Travellers on horseback by a blacksmith with peasants and their cattle near the ruin of the Basilica of Constantine and the San Francesco Romana
signed with intials 'PVB' (centre right)
oil on canvas, unframed
85.3 x 120.4 cm.

Provenance

Knoedler & Co., London; Christie's, London, 7 February 1913, lot 96 (£21.00 to Ward).

Special notice

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Lot Essay

The present Roman view is almost identical to a larger composition by Pieter van Bloemen that was with M. Knoedler & Co, New York, before 1946. Another version was sold at Dorotheum, Vienna, 19 October 1993, lot 84.

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