Travellers among Roman Ruins

Not on View

Medium

pen and brown ink with red-brown and blue wash, incised for transfer

Dimensions

sheet: 21.1 x 23.6 cm (8 5/16 x 9 5/16 in.)
image (diameter): 19.8 cm (7 13/16 in.)

Credit Line

Julius S. Held Collection, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Accession Number

1983.74.15

Artists / Makers

Pieter Stevens (artist) Flemish, c. 1567 - 1624 or after

Image Use

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Inscription

lower right of image, in pen and brown ink: PS; in later hand, lower right verso in graphite: Pieter Slingeland / Flemish / Sp.27-

Provenance

Max Goldstein, Saint Louis; (Kende (Kennedy?) Gallery, New York, sale May 5 and 6, 1950, no. 68, as Pieter van Slingeland); Julius S. Held, Old Bennington, Vermont; purchased 1983 by NGA.

Associated Names

Held, Julius S., Professor
Held, Peter Mark, Mr.

Exhibition History

1979: Master Drawings from the Collection of Ingrid and Julius S. Held, The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown; traveling exhibition, 1979, no. 6.

Bibliography

1985: Kaufmann, Thomas Dacosta. "A Census of Drawings from the Holy Roman Empire, 1540-1680, in North America Collections" Central European History xviii (1985) 1:4-13, 70-74, 106.