The Fantastic Rocks and Castle at Bomarzo [recto], c. 1625

Not on View

Medium

pen and brown ink with brown and gray wash over black chalk on laid paper

Dimensions

overall: 34.5 x 48.6 cm (13 9/16 x 19 1/8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation

Accession Number

1985.14.1.a

Artists / Makers

Bartholomeus Breenbergh (artist) Dutch, 1598 - 1657

Image Use

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Inscription

by later hand?, lower left verso in graphite: Breenberg 15 / D30054; rest by later hands: upper left verso in graphite: 4949 / 31; upper right verso in graphite: e / 033406 / 20 / Vonchont / Veam (?) / JBS / 25 x 19 (erased)

Marks and Labels

none

Provenance

(P. & D. Colnaghi & Co., Ltd., London), 1967; Rodney Thesiger, London, 1967; (sale, London, Sotheby & Co., 22 November 1974, no. 40); (Richard L. Feigen & Co., New York); gift 1985 to NGA.

Associated Names

Colnaghi & Co., Ltd., P. & D.
Feigen, Richard L.
Thesiger, Rodney

Exhibition History

1967: Exhibition of Old Master Drawings. P. & D. Colnaghi, London: 6/13-6/30/67, no. 31, recto only.

Bibliography

1969: Roethlisberger 1969, no. 38, recto only.

1971: Regteren Altena, J. Q. van. Review of Roethlisberger 1969 in Art Bulletin 53 (1971): 537, fig. 2, recto only.

1981: Roethlisberger 1981, no. 74, recto only.