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View of Tivoli

Maker

(artist)
1652-1736

Title

View of Tivoli

Date of Production

1700 - 1710

Medium

graphite, pen and brown ink, brown and grey wash, on laid paper, squared in graphite and red chalk

Dimensions

Height: 37.3 cm
Width: 35.8 cm

Accession Number

D.1961.WF.4705

Mode of Acquisition

Witt Fund, purchase, 1961 (June)

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords

Label Text

The ancient town of Tivoli, north-east of Rome, was a popular destination for tourists and artists in the 18th century. Flemish painter Gaspar van Wittel probably executed this landscape study in situ, before taking it back to the studio where he squared it for transfer. It relates to several of his paintings.

Notes

A study for the left section of an oil painting in a private collection in Viterbo, dated by Briganti to 1700-10, of 'View of Tivoli and the Temple of Vesta'. A sketch for the central section is in Washington (Rust Collection). This sheet depicts the outskirts of the town on the right, the plain of the Porta Sant'Angelo, and beginnings of the Via Valeria advancing along the foothills of Monte Catillo on the left.

Provenance

Bartolommeo Cavaceppi (ca. 1716-1799); Michelangelo Pacetti, Rome (b. 1793); Paul Fatio, Geneva (1874-1960?); Wynne Jeudwine (London), May - June 1961, no. 30; purchased there by The Courtauld via the Witt Fund (£225)

Exhibition History

Special Display - The Grid, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 26/01/2012-28/05/2012

Landscapes in the Making: Dutch & Flemish 16-17th Century Drawings from the Courtauld Gallery, Tobu Museum of Arts, Tokyo, 03/11/2000-24/12/2000; Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art, Shizuoka, 02/02/2001-11/03/2001; Koriyama City Museum of Art, Koriyama, 17/03/2001-15/04/2001

Master Drawings from the Courtauld Collections, Courtauld Institute Galleries, London, 16/10/1991-19/01/1992 ...More

The Northern Landscape: Flemish, Dutch and British Drawings from the Courtauld Collections, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 03/09/1986-30/11/1986; The Drawing Center, New York, 08/04/1986-26/07/1986

Newly Acquired Drawings for the Witt Collection, Courtauld Institute Galleries, London, 1965-1966

Four centuries of Italian landscape, Wynn Jeudwine, London, 1961 (May-June) ...Less

Literature

Four centuries of Italian landscape, Wynn Jeudwine, London, May-June 1961
cat. no. 30
no. 30

Newly Acquired Drawings for the Witt Collection, Courtauld Institute Galleries, London, 1965-1966
cat. no. 33
no. 33

Zwollo, An, Hollandse en Vlaamse veduteschilders te Rome 1675-1725, Assen 1973
no. 243, p. 122 ...More

The Northern Landscape: Flemish, Dutch and British Drawings from the Courtauld Collections, Courtauld Gallery, London, 1986
cat. no. 71
ill. on p. 167

Master Drawings from the Courtauld Collections, Courtauld Institute Galleries, London, 1991
cat. no. 80
pp. 168, 197
ill. on p. 169

Briganti, Giuliano, Gaspar van Wittel: new edition, Milan 1996
no. D171
ill. on p. 346 ...Less

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: centre: double circle containing a fleur-de-lis, surmounted with a "V" (see tracing in file, no match in Heawood or Piccard and Peter Bower had no further information).

Inscription: Recorded in file but no longer visible: Recto, lower left edge, graphite: "Paropus f 69".

Collector's mark: none.

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