Lieven Cruyl (1640-c. 1720)

The Campidoglio, Rome

Details

Lieven Cruyl (1640-c. 1720)
The Campidoglio, Rome
signed with initials 'L.C.'
black lead, pen and black ink, brown wash, in an inscribed circle in gold, black chalk framing lines, on vellum
112 x 112 mm.

Provenance

W. Esdaile (L. 2617), his inscription '10x'; Christie's, London, 24 June 1840, part of lot 1255 (10to Gurney).
Anon. sale, Christie's, Amsterdam, 12 November 1990, lot 109, illustrated (Nlg. 13.800 to the present owner).

Literature

B. Jatta, Lievin Cruyl e la sua Opera Grafica, Brussels/Rome, 1992, pp. 140 and 390, no. 93, fig. 109.
C. Dumas, R.-J. te Rijdt, Kleur en Raffinement, tekeningen uit de Unicorno Collectie, exhib. cat., Zwolle Amsterdam Dordrecht, 1994, under no. 18, fig. 18.1.

Lot Essay

Lieven Cruyl, from Ghent, probably in Rome from 1664 until 1670, drew a large number of Roman views. This is one of ten known similar circular views of varying dimensions. Other examples of the same view dated 1665, are in the Istituto Poggio Imperiale, Florence and, in reverse, in the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland (Jatta, op. cit., nos. 36 and 76) and an undated version is in the Unicorno Collection, The Hague (Dumas, Te Rijdt, op. cit., no. 19). One of these was engraved by J. Sluiter for J.G. Graevius, Thesaurus Antiquitatum Romanarum, Utrecht, 1697, IV. Cruyl executed similar views of Venice, Naples, Genoa, and later Paris and Versailles. He also did capriccio views combining architectural fragments from various countries.

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