Villa of Maecenas at Tivoli

CC0 Public Domain Designation

Prints and Drawings

c. 1627

Bartholomeus Breenbergh
Dutch, 1598-1657

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Bartholomeus Breenbergh
Title: Villa of Maecenas at Tivoli
Origin: Holland
Date: 1622–1632
Medium: Pen and brown ink, with brush and brown and gray wash, over graphite, with touches of graphite over the washes, on cream laid paper
Inscriptions: Inscribed verso, lower center, in pen and brown ink: "Bischop"; lower right, in graphite: "D.1130" (in an oval)
Dimensions: 393 × 276 mm
Credit Line: Charles H. Worcester Sketch Fund
Reference Number: 1973.446
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Carlos van Hasselt, Dessins de Paysagistes Hollandais du XVIIe siecle .. a l’Institute Neerlandais, 1968, vol. I, under no. 26, p. 28.
Marcel Roethlisberger, Bartholomeus Breenbergh, Handzeichnungen (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter & Co., 1969), p. 39, under no. 104.

Art Institute of Chicago, The Broad Spectrum: Color on Paper, Past and Present, Sept. 12–Oct. 31, 1999, no cat.
The Art Institute of Chicago, “Rubens, Rembrandt, and Drawing in the Golden Age”, September 28, 2019 - January 5, 2020, pp. 30, 31, 241, 244-245 (ill.), 290, 291, 329 (ill,), cat. 90, cat. by Victoria Sancho Lobis, et. al.

Carl Robert Rudolf (1884–1974), London [stamp (Lugt 2811b), verso, lower right, in black]. Sold, Christie’s, London, Mar. 20, 1973, lot 49. Sold by Zeitlin and ver Brugge Booksellers, Los Angeles, to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1973.

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