A View of Rome from Santa Maria del Priorato, c. 1710

Not on View

Medium

pen and brown ink and gray wash with red chalk on laid paper

Dimensions

overall: 25.9 x 38.4 cm (10 3/16 x 15 1/8 in.)

Credit Line

Bequest of Lore Heinemann in memory of her husband, Dr. Rudolf J. Heinemann

Catalogue Raisonné

Briganti 1996, no. 154

Accession Number

2000.97.3.a

Artists / Makers

Gaspar van Wittel (artist) Dutch, 1652/1653 - 1736

Image Use

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Inscription

by later hand, lower left of mount in graphite: Claude Gelée dit le Lorrain / Rome, St. Pierre; by later hand, lower right of mount in brown ink: cl. lorrain; by later hand, upper right of mount in brown ink: 7156

Provenance

(Thomas Agnew & Son, Ltd., London, 1961); Dr. Rudolf J. Heinemann, Ruvigliana, Lugano, 1966; his wife, Mrs. Rudolf J. Heinemann, New York and Lugano; gift to NGA, 2000.

Associated Names

Agnew & Sons, Ltd., Thomas
Heinemann, Rudolf J.
Heinemann, Rudolf J., Mrs.

Exhibition History

1961: The Italian Scene, drawings by Vanvitelli, Thomas Agnew & Sons, London, 1961, no. 16.

Bibliography

1966: Briganti, Giuliano. Gaspar van Wittel e l'origine della veduta settecentesca. Rome, 1966: 279, no. 47d.

1973: Zwollo, An. Hollandse en Vlaamse veduteschilders te Rome, 1675-1725. Assen, 1973: 195, fig. 250.

1996: Briganti, Giuliano. Gaspar van Wittel. Milan, 1996.