Eighteen Views of Rome: The Quattro Fontane Looking Toward Monte Cavallo

1665

Lievin Cruyl

Lievin Cruyl (Flemish, c. 1640-c. 1720)

Drawings

Eighteen Views of Rome: The Quattro Fontane Looking Toward Monte Cavallo, 1665. Lievin Cruyl (Flemish, c. 1640-c. 1720). Pen and brown ink and brush and gray wash over graphite; framing lines in brown ink; sheet: 38.7 x 48.7 cm (15 1/4 x 19 3/16 in.); framed: 61.7 x 76.8 x 2.6 cm (24 5/16 x 30 1/4 x 1 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Dudley P. Allen Fund 1943.273

Original Source

Maker/Artist: Cruyl, Lieven
Classification: Drawing
Formatted Medium: pen and brown ink and brush and gray wash over graphite; framing lines in brown ink
Medium: pen, brown, ink, brush, gray, wash, over, graphite, framing, lines
Dimensions: Sheet: 38.7 x 48.7 cm (15 1/4 x 19 3/16 in.); Framed: 61.7 x 76.8 x 2.6 cm (24 5/16 x 30 1/4 x 1 in.)
Inscribed: Inscription: signed, lower left, in brown ink: [artist's monogram: LC] RVYL delin: Romæ / mense Aprili 1665. ; by artist, upper center, in brown ink: Prospetto primo delle 4. Fontane Verso Monte Cavallo, / e SS. Trinita di Monti ; by artist, throughout composition, in brown ink: [the letters A-R] ; by artist, across bottom, in brown ink: A. Fontes. B. Conventus S. Caroli. C. Novitiatus Soc. Jesv. D. Mons Quirnalis. E. Palatium Pontificium cum Viridario in Monte Quirinali. F. Temp. S. Agnetis in Foso Agonali. / G. Columna Antonina. H. Temp. S. Augustini. I. Basilica S. Petri. K. Castrum. S. Angeli. L. Temp. S. Andreæ delle Fratte. M. Collegium Grecorum. N. Temp. SS. Trinitatis / Montium. O. Palatium Mag[ni] Ducis Etruriæ. P. Via Gregoriana. Q. Conventus Minoritariúm S. Isidori. R. Horologium Conventus Cappúcinorum. S. Palatium cum Virida[r]io / [portion missing] Palestrinæ[crossed out] Praenestini [in red chalk] Prænestini. [in brown ink, rewitten over inscription in red chalk] ; ON STRIPS OF PAPER MOUNTED TO VERSO, bottom center, in graphite: A20983 ; lower right, in graphite: E. 20 ; ON PIECE OF PAPER APPLIED TO VERSO AS A REPAIR, lower right, in graphite: [four lines of illegible inscription] [upside down]
Departments: Drawings
Accession Number: 1943.273
Credit Line: Dudley P. Allen Fund
Exhibitions: Views of Rome, Francesco Borromini. The Development of an Architectural Idiom, Lugano, Switzerland (9/5/99 - 11/11/99). "Francesco Borromini. The Development of an Architectural Idiom."
Rights Statement: CC0