A panoramic view of Rome from the Porta del Popolo

Details

Jacob van der Ulft (Gorinchem 1627-1689 Nordwijk)
A panoramic view of Rome from the Porta del Popolo
pen and brown ink, brown wash, on two joined sheets of paper, ink gall damage
12½ x 39 in. (31.7 x 99 cm.)

Exhibited

British Council, 11th Council of Europe Exhibition, Stockholm, 1965, number unknown.

Special notice

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Lot Essay

One of four copies by van der Ulft after a drawing by Jan de Bisschop in the Morgan Library (J. Shoaf, Dutch Drawings in the Pierpont Morgan Library: seventeenth to nineteenth centuries, New York, 2006, no. 29). One of the other copies is in the Louvre (F. Lugt, Inventaire Général des Dessins des Ecoles du Nord: Ecole Hollandaise, Paris, 1931, II, no. 767), while two are in the Musée des Beaux Arts, Brussels.

We are grateful to Peter Schatborn for confirming the attribution to van der Ulft from a photograph and for his assistance in preparing this catalogue note.

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