Eighteen Views of Rome: The Piazza Barberini (recto); Tracing of a Fountain from Recto and Sketches of Two Faces (verso)

1665

Lievin Cruyl

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

Drawings

Eighteen Views of Rome: The Piazza Barberini (recto); Tracing of a Fountain from Recto and Sketches of Two Faces (verso), 1665. Lievin Cruyl (Flemish, c. 1640-c. 1720). Pen and brown ink and brush and gray wash with graphite; framing lines in brown ink and graphite (along bottom edge); sketch unrelated to main composition in graphite (upper right); sheet: 38.3 x 49.7 cm (15 1/16 x 19 9/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Dudley P. Allen Fund 1943.265

Original Source

Maker/Artist: Cruyl, Lieven
Classification: Drawing
Formatted Medium: pen and brown ink and brush and gray wash with graphite; framing lines in brown ink and graphite (along bottom edge); sketch unrelated to main composition in graphite (upper right)
Medium: pen, brown, ink, brush, gray, wash, graphite, framing, lines, along, bottom, edge, sketch, unrelated, main, composition, upper, right
Dimensions: Sheet: 38.3 x 49.7 cm (15 1/16 x 19 9/16 in.)
Inscribed: Inscription: recto: signed, lower left, in brown ink: [artist monogram: LC] RVYL delin: Romæ / mense Febr. 1665: ; by artist, upper center, in brown ink: Prospetto della Piazza di Sforsa , hoggi Piazza Barberina ; by artist, throughout composition, in brown ink: [the letters A-F] ; by artist, lower left, in brown ink: A. Palatium Eccel.mi [mi in superscript] Principis Barberini. B. Fons ab Urbano VIII ex inventione / Equitis Jois Laurentij Barberini extructus. C. Ecclia: et Conventus Fratrum / S. Nicolai ordinis Eremitarum S. Augustini reformatorum. D. Ecclia S. / Susannæ. F. Ecclia S. Caroli ad quatuor Fontes in Monte Quirinale. / F. Basilica S. Mariæ Maioris in Monte Esquilino. ; lower center, in graphite: [illegible, erased] verso: upper left, in brown ink: [illegible, masked] ; upper left, in graphite: [illegible] ; ON STRIPS OF PAPER MOUNTED TO PERIMETER, lower right, in graphite: A20980 ; lower right, in graphite: E. 11
Departments: Drawings
Accession Number: 1943.265
Credit Line: Dudley P. Allen Fund
Exhibitions: Views of Rome
Rights Statement: CC0