Interior View of the Coliseum

Prints and Drawings

c. 1580

Attributed to Lodewijk Toeput
Flemish, c. 1550–c. 1605

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Lodewijk Toeput
Title: Interior View of the Coliseum
Place: Flanders (Artist's nationality)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1575–1585
Medium: Pen and brown ink and brush and black and green washes, over black chalk, on cream laid paper
Inscriptions: Inscribed verso, upper left, in pen and red ink: "Lot 340"; upper center, in pen and brown ink: "A4"; lower right, in pen and brown ink: "339"
Dimensions: 37 × 43 cm (14 5/8 × 16 15/16 in.)
Credit Line: The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection
Reference Number: 1922.2422
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The Art Institute of Chicago, “Rubens, Rembrandt, and Drawing in the Golden Age”, September 28, 2019 - January 5, 2020, pp. 244, 248 (ill.), 281, 317, cat. 91, cat. by Victoria Sancho Lobis, et. al.

Prosper Henry Lankrink (1628–1692), London [stamp (Lugt 2090), recto, lower right, in black]. Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723–1792), London [stamp (Lugt 2364), recto, lower right, in black]. Arthur Melville Champernowne (1871–1946), Dartington Hall, Totnes, Devon [inscription (Lugt 153), recto, lower right, in black]; probably sold, Sotheby’s, London, Apr. 26–27, 1911, to William F. E. Gurley (1854–1943), Chicago [stamp (Lugt 5308), recto, lower right, in black]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago for the Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection, 1922 [stamp (Lugt 1230b), verso, lower center].

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