Willem Romeyn (Haarlem circa 1624-circa 1694)

The ruins of the Colosseum, Rome

Details

Willem Romeyn (Haarlem circa 1624-circa 1694)
The ruins of the Colosseum, Rome
signed and dated 'W ROMEYN 1693' and with inscription 'W: Romeyn.' (on the mount)
black chalk, grey wash, watermark posthorn within shield, black ink framing lines
12 5/8 x 8 in. (32.2 x 20.2 cm.)

Provenance

Samuel Woodburn (1786-1853); Christie's, London, 16-25 June 1854, lot 672 ('The Coliseum - Indian ink').
with Colnaghi, London (according to a note by I.Q. van Regteren Altena).

Literature

M. Plomp, The Dutch Drawings in the Teyler Museum: II: Artists born between 1575 and 1630, Haarlem, 1997, p. 353, under no. 405.

Exhibited

Amsterdam, Amsterdam Museum, In de ban van Italië: Tekeningen uit een Amsterdamse verzameling, 1995, no. 25 (catalogue by I. Oud, M. Jonker and M. Schapelhouman).

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Lot Essay

Romeyn visited Italy in 1650-51 but continued painting and drawing Italian subjects once back in Holland, no doubt basing these works on sketches made during that trip. Two other drawings dated 1693, also representing the Colosseum and of almost identical dimensions, are in the Teylers Museum, Haarlem (Plomp, op. cit, nos. 404-5).

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