Eighteen Views of Rome: The Piazza Barberini (recto)
1665
Lievin Cruyl
Lievin Cruyl (Flemish, c. 1640-c. 1720)
Drawings
Eighteen Views of Rome: The Piazza Barberini (recto), 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.a
- 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: 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]
- Departments
- Drawings
- Accession Number
- 1943.265.a
- Credit Line
- Dudley P. Allen Fund
- Exhibitions
- Views of Rome, Life and the Arts in the Baroque Palaces of Rome: Ambiente Barocco, 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), exh. cat. no. 3, p 117.
- Rights Statement
- CC0
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