Eighteen Views of Rome: The Piazza Colonna
1664
Lievin Cruyl
Lievin Cruyl (Flemish, c. 1640-c. 1720)
Drawings
Eighteen Views of Rome: The Piazza Colonna, 1664. Lievin Cruyl (Flemish, c. 1640-c. 1720). Pen and brown ink and brush and gray and blue wash over stylus and graphite; framing lines in brown ink; sheet: 39.3 x 50 cm (15 1/2 x 19 11/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Dudley P. Allen Fund 1943.258
- Maker/Artist
- Cruyl, Lieven
- Classification
- Drawing
- Formatted Medium
- pen and brown ink and brush and gray and blue wash over stylus and graphite; framing lines in brown ink
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 39.3 x 50 cm (15 1/2 x 19 11/16 in.)
- Inscribed
- Inscription: signed, lower right, in brown ink: [artist monogram: LC] inv. / 1664 Ag. ; by artist, upper center, in brown ink: Prospetto della Piazza Colonna ; by artist, throughout composition, in brown ink: [the letters A-E] ; by artist, lower left, in brown ink: A. Colonna Antonina, quam Xystus V. misere laceram erigi ussit, ac D Paulo conservavit. / B. Palatium Ecclmi Principis Marij Chisij Fratris Alexandri vii Pont: Maximi. / C Prospectus totius Plateæ Portam Flamineam versus.vulgo (Strada dell'Corso) Voca= / tam. / E Palatia Principis Ludovisij, quorum maius necdum est absolutum. ; VERSO, upper left, in brown ink?: 5 upper left, in graphite: 545 ; ON STRIPS OF PAPER MOUNTED TO VERSO, lower right, in graphite: Albertina 20968 ; lower right, in graphite: #2
- Departments
- Drawings
- Accession Number
- 1943.258
- Credit Line
- Dudley P. Allen Fund
- Exhibitions
- Ruins of Rome, Drawings, Builders and Humanists, Seventeenth Century Netherlandish Graphics, Views of Rome, Life and the Arts in the Baroque Palaces of Rome: Ambiente Barocco, Courts of the Baroque Age: From Bernini and Velazquez to Luca Giordano, Life and the Arts in the Baroque Palaces of Rome: Ambiente Barocco. The Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, New York, 10 March-13 June, 1999; The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 21 July-3 October, 1999. Exh. cat. edited by Stefanie Walker and Frederick Hammond (New York, Yale University Press), pp. 116-17, nos. 2-3, repr. in color.<br>Palacio Real de Madrid (10/15/2003 - 1/11/2004): "Courts of the Baroque Age: From Bernini and Velazquez to Luca Giordano," exh. cat. no. 2.18, p. 189.
- Rights Statement
- CC0
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