Bartholomeus Breenbergh (Deventer 1598-1657 Amsterdam)

The Piazza del Popolo, Rome

Details

Bartholomeus Breenbergh (Deventer 1598-1657 Amsterdam)
The Piazza del Popolo, Rome
with inscription 'Porta del Popolo te Rome' (verso)
graphite, brown wash, black ink framing lines
10.3 x 15.6 cm.

Provenance

E.G. Spencer Churchill (1770-1859) (according to a note in the collection files).

Literature

M. Roethlisberger, Bartolomäus Breenbergh, Handzeichnungen, Berlin, 1969, p. 34, no. 76, ill.
C. Brown, 'Review: Kabinet van Tekeningen', Burlington Magazine, CXIX, no. 888, March 1977, p. 217.

Exhibited

Amsterdam, Koninklijk Oudheidkundig Genootschap, Hoe Hollandse teekenaars Rome zagen 1500-1840, 1940 (no catalogue published).
Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Paris, Fondation Custodia, and Brussels, Bibliothèque Albert 1er, Le Cabinet d'un Amateur: Dessins flamands et hollandais des XVIe et XVIIe siècles d'une collection privée d'Amsterdam, 1976-77, no. 30, pl. 64 (catalogue by J. Giltaij).
Amsterdam, Amsterdam Museum, In de ban van Italië: Tekeningen uit een Amsterdamse verzameling, 1995, no. 12 (catalogue by I. Oud, M. Jonker and M. Schapelhouman).

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Lot Essay

The present drawing was probably executed from nature around 1626 (Roethlisberger, op. cit., no. 76). Later in his career, Breenbergh would use a similar view in the background in two paintings: Landscape with Elijah and the widow of Zarephath in the Fondation Custodia, Paris and Landscape with Elisha and the Children in the Kunsthalle, Bremen (see M. Roethlisberger, Bartholomeus Breenbergh: The Paintings, Berlin, New York, 1981, nos. 127, 151).

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